Day #2 east of the mountains.

In this post, I talked all about our first day of the mini-vacation/trip to Becky's wedding east of the mountains. Here, I'll talk about day #2. We woke up on Sunday and planned to go on a big 10 mile day hike in Leavenworth. We were up bright and early and started the drive to Leavenworth from Wenatchee.

Above: road to Wenatchee. We got in to Wenatchee and made a quick stop at Starbucks only to tell each other that we were just not feeling a big hike. So we drove around Leavenworth, drank coffees, explored the town, headed back to sleeping lady for a leisurely breakfast and THEN headed into the mountains for a stroll.

Above- mountains post breakfast.

And a slightly better shot. Icicle creek in the middle of the picture.

We ended up doing about a 5 mile loop up the Snow Lake trail. It was gorgeous. And holy crap, it ended up being a workout. Once we started going, we just went for it. As is typical.

Um. Can we just take a second to look at the above picture and salute, The Hair. WOAH BABY, I thought we talked about how the sticking your finger in a socket look isn't going to be the next bowl cut? It's too bad that I sort of cut off the hair although I'm pretty sure it was sticking up 10 feet so there's no way I would have captured it all... (isn't he cute though?)

Justin on the mountain.

A shot looking down from the mountain.

And a cool shot of the forest- these woods burned about 10 years ago and you can still see the effects on the trees in the forest (see above curled limbs). It's pretty crazy.



Another pretty trail shot. Washington state really is gorgeous.

And one more of Justin. Just in case you didn't see the other 1,000,000 shots I've posted of him on this blog.

At the end of the hike, we took a quick picture in front of icicle creek.

After the hike, we explored around more including visiting several places where Justin used to live as well as several canyons that surround Leavenworth that were pretty cool. We also went to Lake Wenatchee (above). The water was frigid as it's all glacier run off (Justin tested this, above).

We then got back onto the highway back to Seattle and made a stop at deception falls, above. CRAZY huge waterfall right now due to all of the snow melt. There was a little 1.5 mile loop around the park there that we did as well.

A shot of Justin on the super scary bridge above the falls. I HATE bridges that you can see through. It creeps me out, I have no idea why- perhaps because I feel like I'll fall through? I also hate grates on the street that are like this and will purposefully avoid walking on them. Everyone has their quirks.

On the path at deception falls there were HUGE trees that were something like 600 years old. Above is one that we couldn't even see the top of. CRAZY. After exploring around here, we hopped back in the car, sat in traffic for a bit and eventually made it home for a relaxing sunday night. It was a short trip east but it felt like it was a much longer vacation of sorts since we got out of Seattle. Exactly what we needed.