Wenatchee, WA

We headed out this morning before 8 a.m. to dump at a free dump station provided by the city and then went on to meet Tom and Nanci and Frank and Val in a casino parking lot along our route. We headed east toward Wenathchee, planning to go to Leavenworth, a small German town, on the way, but by the time we got near that town, it was afternoon, traffic was bumper to bumper, and we decided to go to Springdale Orchard Store in Peshastin instead. Everyone browsed through the thousands of canned and packaged goodies. We got some Walla Walla onions (enthusiastically endorsed by Tom)and some Ranier cherries.

We checked in at the Wenatchee Confluence State Park campground, where Nanci had made reservations for us, and set up in three adjacent arc-shaped pull throughs. They're near the confluence of the Wenatchee River and the Columbia, but you have to walk over to a viewing deck to see the rivers.

I went to Costco with Tom, who was looking for sandals. He didn't find any, but I got some Costco whole grain bread and wine. We had French lentil soup (from Soup Cycle) with bread and salad for dinner. Afterwards we walked over to the viewing decks with Sweetie and unexpectedly found some huckleberry trees, so I picked some of those. We watched in interesting Nova episode called Ape Genius about experiments showing the surprising abilities of chimpanzees--and their limitations.