Saturday morning we slept in after a rough night..I think the people above us were letting their kids have a party until midnight. :P We hit the continental breakfast and then walked back to the main part of town to the shops. We spent over an hour in the Christmas store looking at the thousands of ornaments!
Peanut loved all the different ornament styles and options. We let her pick one and she chose a red and white polka dotted mushroom. They also had several of these giant wreaths.
Our main event of the day was seeing a play! Leavenworth is famous for their summer theater and they did not disappoint! We saw a musical comedy called Anything Goes. It was so cute and they did a fabulous job.
It was set in the 30's on a cruise liner and was about an average guy who was trying to win back the heart of a debutante who was now engaged to a Lord that her mother wanted her to marry for the fortune and prestige.
There were also several hilarious characters, like a thief who was pretending to be a priest, and a famous singer who was first in love with the average guy but then ended up falling in love with the Lord. There were so many neat sets and SO MANY costume changes...I don't know how they kept them all straight! There were tons of great songs and several really neat numbers with amazing choreography. We really enjoyed it!!
Meanwhile back at home...we left poor Noni with these sickie babes. Whoops. They had started coming down with a cold the day before we left but I guess it hit them hard that weekend because she sent pictures of both of them napping during the day which they never do anymore.
I guess they did perk up later.
These are the little chicks we raised this past Spring! They are already full grown chickens!
But back to Leavenworth...we found this cute shop called the Gingerbread Factory. It must have been run by Christians because they had lots of bible verses displayed as well as dozens of Gingerbread houses. These are just a few. Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Hanzel, and Gretel, The Three Little Pigs. They had every Disney movie covered.
Peanut found her favorite thing there...a chocolate croissant.
We did some more shopping and then headed to the nearby city to hit some Goodwill stores. Peanut found a few things that fit the dress code for her school. I forgot to mention that morning she found a super nice leather, motorcycle jacket at the Leavenworth thrift store. I looked them up and they normally sell for $200-$250 and she got it for $20! Best find of the weekend for sure! She got some other things at the two Goodwill stores we found and then we had Mexican food for dinner. Frozen yogurt wrapped up the night!
Sunday we slept in again, grabbed some cereal from the hotel breakfast and then packed up and checked out. We hit a few more stores and got a giant pretzel for Boo, and cookies for the little ones. We stopped into the Snow Cave because it looked fun and found Finn and Eddie the Yeti's...so funny!
Then we walked back the other way, passing our hotel...we were on the second floor.
To the Leavenworth Adventure Park!
She was super excited about riding the Alpine Slide. We went two times. You could control the speed of your car and the first time I was between her and T but I guess I went too slow and made T have to slow down for me. :P Peanut must have gone full speed the whole time because I didn't even catch a glimpse of her on the way down even though I only started 80 feet behind her!
I went last the second time and tried to go faster. I definitely liked going slow better where I could enjoy the beautiful mountain scenery. The second time I was going too fast to do anything but hang on and try to brace for the curves. :P Peanut and Daddy loved the zipping down the mountain!
After our two slide runs we got a rock kit and Peanut got to do the mine sluice.
She got a lot of really pretty rocks!
Here you can see the slides behind them.
What an amazing trip with our girl!!! We had so much fun and loved spending that special time with her so much! I wish we could do it all the time!
Thanks Noni for watching the little ones!!! Sorry about all the snot!! :P
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