Places to Go and Things to Do in 2002 - Part III
The owners are musicians and will even play for you if desired - they do weddings, honeymoons, retreats, etc. The site lists winners to special prize categories guests have won such as "first request for music to surprise wife on wedding anniversary." Speaking of music, the owners also sell CD's at their site: one is Waltzing in the Trees with classic train songs and old-time music.
Check out the site and see for yourself what awaits you at this awesome guest retreat which really is up-in-the-sky among the treetops. Bring back the child, but prepare to climb five flights of stairs!
I've not been there, but it looks like a winner.
For a more leisurely stroll you may just like to visit a museum. This is my pick this week for two reasons.
See Sylix Nation Unity Trek Canoes and 100 Years of American Cooking in a Wenatchee Museum
Whenever I'm out-of-town I always like to pick up newspapers and see what's going on around other parts of the state. The local Olympian newspaper provided the following Associated Press story on December 2, 2001, a museum tale of American and Canadian Indian pasts uniting.
Three 18-feet-long canoes on display this month in the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center lend great significance in unifying seven Sylix Nation bands from the Okanagan Indian Nation in southern British Columbia and 12 bands of the Colville Federated Tribes in North Central Washington in a historical event.
The three displayed canoes carved from the same cottonwood tree carried tribal members six months ago on a 250-mile trek across homelands occupied by their ancestors 150 years ago. Beginning at Pillar Lake in central British Columbia, across the Okanagan and Osoyoos lakes and down the Okanogan River to the Columbia River near Brewster (Okanogan spelled with an "a" in Canada, an "o" in Washington), the journey was made by foot, canoe and on horseback.
A quote from the newspaper: "This is part of learning who we are," said Leon Louis, a Lower Similkameen tribal leader from Keremeos, B.C. "This is our history. We're walking in the footsteps of our ancestors."
What's so unique? The tribal members had the opportunity to work together to build the canoes and journey as one on an international trek. There were actually seven canoes. One was built by women of three generations of the same family. Get on over to the museum to see the canoes before they are no
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