Did I tell you our campground is the Silver Ridge Ranch? Half of the camper have horses with them. There were 4 horses in individual corrals right behind us Saturday night. On Sunday morning, everyone was getting ready for rides. On his way back from the bathhouse, Poppa watched a man trying to saddle his horse. Then the horse wiggled his butt and made the saddle fall off.
Poppa didn't want to embarrass the man, so he pretended he wasn't watching and came back inside the trailer. And immediately borrowed my iPhone to make this video through the kitchen window. there were at least three failures before the horse was saddled:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVnBFORQsdQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
(Sorry - Poppa finally got something on YouTube and the quality is terrible! He even specified HD. Back to the manuals...)
Later, we met Damon and Avi and drove to Leavenworth for lunch. The scenery on the drive was great, as it has been so often on our trip. Leavenworth was initially a lumber town and then a railroad town. When the timber ran out and the railroad moved its headquarters, there wasn't much left of the town. Someone got the bright idea to make all the buildings look like it was in Bavaria, dress up in dirndls and lederhosen, play polkas, and sell lots of beer and bratwurst. Throw in lots of gift shops and voila! (I don't know how to say that in German) You have a tourist town.
Actually, it was kind of fun.
I met guys wearing lederhosen:
Got a picture with Avi, Damon, Poppa, and Nana:
Got a ride on a Percheron from a woman wearing a dirndl:
Met a goat (Nana, she's getting serious about the nibbling - get me out of here!):
Then a couple group photos:
And one more shot of Tessa:
Monday morning we go back to Seattle for a week. Hope to do lots of walks, see more parks, play with my brother and the kids.
Poppa hopes to get together with Maureen, his tennis friend from Pittsburgh. She's visiting her daughter who works at the University of Washington Medical Center.
Posted from Nana's iPad
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