Snakes, Rivers, and Leiderhosen

This past weekend we went to Leavenworth to go tubing on the Wenatchee. On our way out, we listened to the soundtrack from Sound of Music (as Leavenworth is our very own Bavarian hideout, or town, whatever). Um, the boys weren't too enthusiastic about our choice of music, but we ladies were all for it. Here's a typical distribution on a trip. Boys all on one side (Ray, CJ, Jonny, Tom), girls on the other (Suzy, me, Sarah). Not really sure why the segregation, but it is absolute in our ward.

We passed by the Reptile Museum in Monroe that houses the world's ten deadliest snakes. When we walked through the door, it was packed and the people were crowding around the boa constrictor that was in the middle of eating a rabbit whole. Wow! What a train wreck that is impossible to look away from. Here's us holding an albino python or something and me poking the cute tortoise. (If you're wondering about the boy-girl order, the photographer actually told us to re-sort ourselves.)


Then, we went tubing and we're excited about being in the sun after a ridiculously shoddy "summer" in Seattle.

Here's us on the bus. Yeah, we were all really happy about the prospects of tubing in the sunny sun sunshine that was sunny. Did I mention it was sunny?


And some snaps of us out on the water. As you can see, these tubes are deluxe. They have a nice back rest and plenty of cupholders.




Then, it was on to Leavenworth for leiderhosen, accordian music, and delicious brats.