A Day in Chelan
Dan and I brought Gander along with us to ‘explore’ part of the state yesterday. We drove to Chelan for the day to visit Kim, Melissa and Meghan and to check out their boarding/grooming kennel. It was a perfect day for a mini road trip. Chelan is about 2 ½ hours NE of Issaquah and the landscape is very different. As we drove across the Cascades, we started to notice the change in the vegetation: from lots of evergreen dotted with the occasional red and orange to mostly deciduous plants to shrubs and tall grasses. The last part of the drive was along Columbia River and we passed by numerous orchards.
We arrived at Arbor Pet Resort just before noon and were met by Kim and the welcoming comittee: Remi and Jake. Kim did give me the bad news soon after we got there: Duke, the rescue Coonhound that they took from my hospital, had to be put to sleep 2 weeks ago because he attacked Kim. She was just calling him away from a bowl of food when he turned on her without warning; she had a few bad wounds on her leg, but managed to put the kennel door between herself and Duke before he could do more damage. I was sad to hear about it, but at the same time, I am glad that Kim is doing fine now and Duke has not hurt anyone else. When I shared the news about Duke with my coworkers today, everyone thought that it was very sad, but we did the best for him and we are all glad that we gave him a chance when his previous owner was ready to give him up.The rest of the day was spent lounging, chatting, eating and watching the dogs play. Jake has always been a bit of a nipper, but he is getting more growly then before. He turned on Gander a couple of times when G was being too in-your-face. That was the first time I have seen Gander cower away, roll onto his back and play the submissive part. After that, Gander kept a fairly safe distance from Jake until they have settled down. Jake and Remi also had bit of a tiff, while Gander seemed sort of oblivious to it and kept on prancing around them to show off another toy that he has found…. What a goof!!
Kim and Mel had originally planned it as a ‘Banfield get-together’, but some couldn’t make it and others didn’t respond. Oh well, we still had a good time. They have a very nice set-up there and none was more impressed than Dan! Since Mel comes to this side of the Cascade every 2 weeks, she even offered to pick up Gander in the future so that he could stay with them while we are out of town. Now that’s great service for you!!
We had a quick drive around town and Lake Chelan. It is a very small town – there isn’t even a Chinese take-out place!! There is a karate school though… Dan and I were both surprised at how little waterfront property there was when the whole town is pretty much built around the lake. There are lots of lake view properties, but there is very limited public access to the lake. One problem is that the road is right along the lake shore… there is some vacant land right on the water but no one was rushing to build on it… very strange indeed.
After an early dinner, we left with 2 big bags of apples and plums – from their plum tree and from one of their clients’ apple tree. Now I just have to figure out what to do with more than 2lb of each when we are going out of town on Friday!
We took a different way home in order to avoid delay on the I-90 due to earlier rock falls/landslide. The alternative way seemed to take forever, but it really only added 1 more hour to the trip. We drove through the Bavarian town of Leavenworth and it was pretty cute. But when we realized how far it is from Issaquah, we scrapped the idea of going there for a day trip! We drove past Stevens Pass, one of the local mountains we need to explore during the ski season. We also found out that Duvall has got a cute downtown area and so does Monroe. So as much as we complained about how long our homeward trip took, it was not a total loss!
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