Leavenworth Long Weekend

Kyle & I just got back from a long weekend (Thursday - Sunday) in Leavenworth, WA. 

We started our adventure in Seattle, at La Carta de Oaxaca, for lunch. This restaurant was featured in a recent issue of Sunset, one of my favorite magazines. They are known for having the best posole. What's the story behind posole? Well - they serve it for lunch occasionally at the Hawthorne Farms Intel and Kyle loves it. So about a year ago I started trying different posole recipes, in search for one similar to the beloved Intel posole. So far I've tried two very different recipes, but both very different to what Intel serves. I've even raced to have lunch with Kyle at Intel, when I heard it was posole day, only to have them run out 1 person before me!!! Seriously. Since then posole catches me eye... and so we found ourself in Seattle eating amazing posole (similar to what they make at Intel)... and! GUESS.WHAT!!! I have the recipe! Somehow I can't find the picture I took of it, super mad about that, but I suppose having the recipe makes up for it. 

Salsa bar... we only got around to trying 4 of the 10 different offerings.

Halibut tacos...

From Seattle we traveled to Leavenworth... first German meal:

The town during the day... 

And I discovered my new favorite drink... hot spiced wine!

A sleigh ride, with Clyde & Claude (our horses)...

Later that night... we wanted to go sledding and could only find this place, so we had to break the rules...

The weekend is suppose to be a super busy time for Leavenworth and since we explored the town the day before we spent Saturday cross country skiing...

And went into town much later in the evening...

So the most adventurous part of the trip... trying to leave Sunday morning! This picture was taken Saturday night, after Leavenworth got 18 inches of snow. Well the problem was by the morning the temperatures started to climb and snow was melting which made lots of very slick slush. Unfortunately the amazing B&B we stayed at had one bad quality - their driveway... impossible to get up!

We are so thankful to of course the B&B owners who were out there shoveling snow, but also 3 other guys staying there came out to help... it took the 6 guys 2 hours of shoveling and sliding around in the car to get us out. I stayed in the house, with the wives of the men helping... which I decided was a good idea in the end. Kyle was telling stories of the car sliding all over and almost getting pinned between the car and a snow bank. So I'm certain if I would have been out there I would have just been me freaking out.

We absolutely had the best weekend. The B&B served delicious breakfasts that kept us full past lunch time. The German food was also delicious. I got the best souvenir - a Nativity - and not just any one, but one that I've been wanting for several years... and what wonderful memories of this great trip I'll have each year that I set it out. We had so much fun exploring a new town, trying a new sport, and then at the end of the day relaxing watching the river our our window and watching fun Christmas movies.

These long weekend getaways Kyle & I go on are starting to be some of my favorite vacation memories.