Halloween at work is always fun. My group decorates our hall a few days before Halloween and on the day of, Employees bring their kids in to trick-or-treat at each of the offices. This year, though, it was pouring rain outside on Halloween, which fell on a Friday. I don’t know if those were contributing factors, but there weren’t that many kids trick-or-treating through our halls. It actually worked out fairly well for me because I was able to sneak out of the office a little early on Friday to head across the mountains to a cabin (go to :43 – the Marianne Lodge) 8 other friends and I rented near Leavenworth.
When I arrived I claimed one of the eight bedrooms(!!!) and helped Ambur put up decorations for the Halloween party she planned that night. Everyone else arrived shortly after and we got to work making a taco dinner in the huge kitchen. Friday night we ate dinner, put on our costumes, danced around in the fog (there was a fog machine), hot tubbed and ate candy and then late night mac and cheese.
^^Meli as a hamster, Brittan as a cat, Natalie the Unicorn and me as an owl^^
^^Rob as the 90s, Pat as Inspector Gadget, Me as an Owl, Natalie the Unicorn, Adam as a Russian Wrestler, Ambur as Hulk Hogan(!!!), Brittan the Cat, Meli the Hamster, Abbey the dog with an elf hat and Paul as the Cheshire Cat^^
^^Adam and Ambur mid wrestle-mania^^
Saturday I woke up and made everyone biscuits and gravy and eggs and coffee for breakfast. Some people were a little worse off than others but after lounging around for a while, a few of us decided it would be fun to go into Leavenworth proper to explore a bit. Neither Brittan or I had ever been so we were especially excited. Paul drove 5 of us into town and the 20 mile ride there was so brutal, we were all SO car sick by the time we got into town, especially Natalie, Brittan and I in the back seat. We parked and walked to the first brewery we saw to get a round of beers to cure us.
^^Brittan, Myself and Natalie at Icicle Brewing Company^^
After our beers we walked around and decided that we would all buy ONE “jewel”. Our jewels didn’t have to be an actual jewel but could be anything we wanted. We actually kind of failed at this task in the end but it was fun to look around at the shops for potential jewels. I wanted a soft pretzel (not hard in a Bavarian town, right?). Natalie and I stopped into a bakery advertising soft pretzels and got the shittiest soft pretzel of our life. So disappointing.
^^Rob, Brittan, Natalie (+ shitty pretzel) and Paul in downtown Leavenworth^^
After walking a bit further Natalie announced she needed a sausage, everyone else was game for another beer so we stopped into the Sausage Garten with more outdoor seating, heat lamps, beer, soft pretzels, a million types of mustard and sausages. It ended up being an excellent idea because everything we had was delicious and the delicious soft pretzel at the Sausage Garten totally rectified the first.
^^Brittan and Natalie with their delicious food + beers^^
After lunch we walked around until Rob found a beer mug that would be his “jewel” and then we headed to Safeway to pick up some more beer and firewood before heading back to the cabin to nap and watch friends in our cabin’s movie theater. We eventually went downstairs to make more tacos for dinner. Afterward we were all still in a lazy mood so someone turned on the TV and found a magical show on TLC called “Sex Sent Me tot he Emergency Room”. It was hilarious watching the show all together commenting because it was SO ridiculous. Additionally, we saw about 50 ads for a dating site called FarmersOnly.com with the tag line: City folks just don’t get it! HAHA! We then immediately tried to get each other to sign up for the site because we are very mature like that. Fun times!
Brittan finally convinced a few of us to get into the hot tub and upon getting into a cold hot tub remembered that Natalie got too hot in the hot tub the night before and decided it would be a great idea to turn it down to 92 degrees then forget she turned it down. Fail. We still lasted in the lukewarm water for longer than I expected before getting out to go to bed.
Sunday morning we were able to enjoy some extra time in the cabin thanks to daylight savings time ending. Ambur made us all waffles and we drank coffee and cleaned. A few of us girls took a break to take a walk around the property too, which was gorgeous:
^^The Wenatchee River^^
Afterward we drove back home. Brittan drove with me and Natalie and Meli caravanned behind us. We stopped at a random brewery along the way that ended up being very weird and small and disappointing. We then decided we needed dumplings when we got back to Seattle and stopped at U Vil to satisfy our need before splitting ways.
It was a great weekend, and the low-key-Halloween will go into the books as one of my favorites (up there right behind the Halloweens Dustin and I have spent together because those ones are always so fun). Cheers!
