Get in the car and go

On Saturday we packed up Betty (my Toyota), set out three gargantuan bowls of cat food for our loud-mouthed, furry-faced roommate, and hit the road. To pass the time on the 3 1/2 hour drive, I took photos through the car windows, shooting around the bug guts and pollen residue smeared on the glass. Two passes (Snoqualmie and Blewett) and about 5 different weather systems later, we landed at Lake Chelan. 

Snoqualmie Pass treated us to a goopy mix of snow, rain, snow mixed with rain, and rain mixed with snow.

My favorite part of heading East is watching the clouds part, the horizon open up, and Betty's temperature gauge go up, up, up.

Lake Entiat

I'm a bit of a cloud fancier. 

Because the weather gods think they're funny, we ended up in Chelan the way we started in Seattle: in the rain.

On the bright side, our B&B turned out slightly better than expected. Their reviews were questionable, and on their website the best room, the "Romance Room", looked like this:

Apparently this photo doesn't do justice to the lace canopy that each reviewer felt compelled to mention in a less than positive way. However, lucky us, we were the very first to enjoy the new and improved MODERN "Romance Room". The proprietress practically squealed with delight showing it to us. The room smelled like fresh paint, the tags were still dangling from the lamps and throw blanket, and the sheets had deep creases from the packaging they had just been pulled from, but at least we knew everything was fresh and clean.