After sleeping in the most comfortable bed we had ever slept in, we were able to sit on the deck with Cynthia and enjoy the beautiful morning. It was an absolutely perfect temperature. This is just the beginning of my love for the Washington weather. Jamie of course has loved it always. While we enjoyed the morning air and the beautiful view, Joey made us crepes for breakfast filled with a cream cheese and whipped cream filling along with strawberries. I had never had crepes before and these were divine!
After breakfast we headed out with Cynthia and Joey. They showed us where Cynthia plays the piano for this Country Store and we were able to see lots of the farms nearby. We came back to the house where Cynthia told us her story of how Joey and she met. They were truly meant to be.
We had lunch and then headed on our way. This was to be the last leg of the trip. We would be in Tacoma Washington by 10pm that evening or so we thought…
After driving for a few hours we stopped at a large fruit stand/antique mall to look around. Jamie got two huge bags of cherries for her family and we headed out again. We also stopped at the gorge near George. (There is actually a town in WA named George. . .) Jamie was so excited to see water she made sure we stopped to survey this new WA terrain.
Evidently WA has either seven of nine, or five of seven different climate zones. They are only missing arctic, and tropical. . . . I think.
We soon came to a traffic sign which warned us about construction on the mountain pass which would add at least an hour to our trip. It was fairly late in the evening so Jamie called her mom to ask about this construction and what she thought we should do. Her mom said we may not get into town until 1am because we also needed to grab some dinner. Her mom suggested we just stay in a hotel for the night so that is what we decided to do. We pulled into the small town of Cle Elm and booked a room at the Timber Lodge Inn. (We chose the Timber Lodge not for it's stereoscopically rustic WA feel, but for the fact that it had Big-Rig parking in the back, from which I would not have to turn around!)
We walked to dinner at the Sunset Café where we both enjoyed our meals. When we arrived back at the hotel we tried to get into the hot tub they offered but it was already closed for the evening. So we did some blogging and headed to bed.
(Please take a moment to notice the ever growing magnet nation. I (Jamie) was collecting these as a souvenir of all the different states Ash-lee and I had traveled. I was so excited and wanted to check how many I had gotten, to make sure I kept an eye out for the ones I was still missing, so I placed them on the mini fridge in the Timber Lodge. I discovered a devastating thing then: they do NOT fit together to make a nation. Since then I have discovered another rather more devastating fact: I left them on the mini fridge when we packed the next morning, and have never heard from them since.)
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