Our "Sunday" day off on Thursday

Today is our weekend "Sunday" so we drove over to Waterville to the North Central Washington County Fair.  We talked with the 4-H participants about their horses, watched a class of young steers being judged and visited the exhibits.  In town, we stopped at Coyote Pass Cafe for lunch and directions for a back road return to Wenatchee.  Before heading for the hills, we visited the Douglas County Museum which had extensive collections of dolls, rocks, tractors, farm equipment, native artifacts, dress and local family history.  One of the curators gave us a personal tour for more than an hour.  We headed for camp via Badger Mountain, up over 4000' and into East Wenatchee where we could hardly see up any canyons in the north west due to forest fire smoke outside Leavenworth.  We had some rain on the ride back so I was glad we had stopped to put the top on the Jeep, though the rain was hardly enough to put out any fire.

$6 for an elephant ear!!!

Sonny buying a chance on $23k or a 2013 Chevy truck or Camero.

Setting up in the City park for a vintage market on Saturday.

Douglas  County Muesum

Vintage travel trailer

I remember this interior from my childhood.

A row of vintage campers

Farming country near Waterville

We followed Badger Mountain Road to East Wenatchee 

Old farmstead along the way.

Back at the campground, children's work

Pancake or a mushroom ???

Sand Castles at the beach

More children's creations

Don't want to misbehave in this family or you will have to ride on top!

 After chores on Saturday, we drove up
White River Road exploring.  We took a few
side roads and found this makeshift
campsite with a great view of Dirty
Face Mountain. Campers really ought
to take home their equipment when done
camping.

Saturday evening at the amphitheater, after a few rousing campfire songs,
we met Stephen Middleton who isa renown flutist from Shelton, WA.  He shared his
collection of Western and Eastern flutes, several of which he had made and he educated
 the audience about one of his favorite, the shakuhachi. He performed original
compositions and let the audience try playing the flutes.  His collection even included
two examples of nose flutes and Native American double flutes.  It was a magical evening
listening to the haunting sounds he created to sound like playing in a canyon in Utah.  

Steven Middleton playing a Native
American flute

Today, (Sunday) we cleaned campsites and then took a break to have a "real meal" at Applebees in Wenatchee.  We had a few groceries to get before heading back to the campground.  We took several back roads through pear orchards.  The forest fire near us in Leavenworth is still being fought but the smoke wasn't visible as it was a few days ago.