Yodel Odeling in Leavenworth

A couple of weeks ago we made our way over to Leavenworth, a town in the middle of the Cascade Range. It used to be a logging town but soon wasn't getting enough money to keep it from becoming a ghost town. So some people decided to make all of the buildings look Bavarian (which is such an obvious solution) to bring in more money for the town. Truthfully, it worked and brings millions of tourists to this town every year. Rusty and I decided to go out and do some camping over there and see what it had to offer. 

Because it is on the other side of the mountains it doesn't have the constant rain/drizzle that Seattle has. Even though Seattle hasn't been rainy lately, it was so nice to go somewhere that was actually HOT. And hot it was, getting up to  101 and 99 degrees on the days that we were there. The landscape sure was beautiful though!!

This was our campsite! Rusty and I had no idea, but these Washington people are serious about their camping. If you don't make reservations months in advance, then you are out of luck. We didn't have reservations for Leavenworth and decided to go anyways and when we got there, all of the "first come first served" campsites were full. It wouldn't have matter much but all of the surrounding National Forest had signs saying camping wasn't allowed. We weren't sure exactly what we were going to do, but we kept going. Eventually we came upon some other campsites and found ONE site open in one of them. Needless to say, we were very grateful :)

This is our campsite all set up with our hammocks, chairs and tent!

The first thing that we did on Saturday was head to a rock climbing place that ended up only being a couple of miles from our campsite. There wasn't a marked trail or anything so we just started heading up looking for the right place. As we were hiking up, Rusty saw a coyote! It had me a little freaked out but Rusty said it was fine so we kept going. By the time we finally got there the rock was so hot that even to touch it to set up the climb was too much. Remember, this was 101 degree weather. So after our long hike up we decided to just head back down and go play in the river that was on the other side of the road.

Everything in this town looked different. With the tall mountains in the back and how the buildings looked it really felt like we were in a completely different place. Even the gas stations and McDonalds looked different!

The famous beer wagon! This thing just sits in the middle of the town and has a TON of beer on it.

There were some people dressed up like Germans and playing German instruments. We sat and listened for a while!