I needed a break and the opportunity was right. We arranged to join our good friends Georgienne and Ted for a New Year weekend get away to Leavenworth Washington. A good six hour drive from our home, we decided to break up the drive and stay the first night in the historic Hood River Hotel located on the beautiful Columbia river gorge. Certainly a step back in time....we loved the charm and character of this well preserved 100+ yr old Hotel. It was the same accomodations my grandparents would have experienced other than now the bathrooms are inside each room rather than shared in the hallway.
although this brass gate elevator was a bit of a pain, it was pretty cool
original Craftman's woodwork and radiators
My room pic didn't turn out so I borrowed one from the website.
For dinner we walked up the street to a Brew Pub, and we climbed a LOT of stairs to get into the pub, but is was worth it. The brews were awesome and so was the food.
After dinner we snagged a bartender to snap a pic of all of us.
It poured rain that night so we got pretty soaked walking back down to the Hotel.
Stay tuned....
My next post later this week will be sharing our trip to the Barvarian theme town Leavenworth, Washington
If you would like to see more (and better) pics of this hotel here is the direct link
http://hoodriverhotel.com/index.html
4 comments:
Hi Deb-
We went to Leavenworth on a camping trip about 13 years ago...it was beautiful! I'd love to ride the Alki Christmas train there during Christmas sometime. Looks like you had a relaxing time.
Oh how wonderful! I know you had a great time. I love places like that. I am glad you had such a great holiday!
Hugs, Lisa
Hood River is one of our favorite towns to visit.
I was so sad that the Kitchen shop there closed.
So many nice little boutiques and shops.
We stay at the same hotel as well.
Just gorgeous.
It looks like a great holiday!
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