Sunday, September 27, 2015

Road Trip...More Ashes...

After spreading 1/2 of our dad's ashes in the Skagit we headed up the next day to Lake Chelan for the weekend to meet up with all of our cousins (on dad's side) and they all brought some of their dads' ashes as well.  We all grew up going to Lake Chelan camping every summer and knew that all three Hay guys loved it there and really wanted to put them back with each other in some sense.

My sisters and one of our cousins Nika headed to Leaveworth earlier in the day to hang out and shop and enjoy the Bavarian town!  I haven't been there since before I had kids and one of my sisters had never been there that she could remember, so it was a great excuse to go!  We had a blast!  I forgot how cute that town is and how much fun it is to just go from shop to shop!  We acted like total tourists and it was awesome!




After living up Leavworth, we headed for Chelan.  Our other two cousins Amy & Melissa arrived later that night and so did Shauna's boyfriend (who drove up from CA).  The next day our aunt/uncle rented a pontoon boat for us all and we headed out onto the lake.  The weather was perfect!  Little windy...but ironically as soon as we found a good spot to spread some ashes the wind completely died down - it was absolutely silent.  Not one other boat out there, not one gust of wind...nothing.  It was eery and awesome all at the same time.  We said goodbye to our dad's, cheers'd them (is that even right, haha) and tossed them overboard together again.




After a toast of champagne after and a little more boating we headed off to the winery to do some grape stomping!




It was absolutely the perfect weekend!  It was sad, but it was fun and great at the same time!


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