Pilgrimage to Cabela's

We went downlake on Sunday afternoon and found the rental minivan in the place we left it. Then we drove to Wenatchee to stay with our long lost friends Dave & Shelly at their new house which has a swimming pool! Sadly, Shelly was called out on a fire (she is a backcountry fire fighter who has worked her way to being a Logistics Manager - so proud of her!) and Dave didn't get home from work until 10pm so we mostly had their house to ourself for the evening. We left bright and early Monday morning (after going for a morning swim, of course).

Rhodri has been wanting to go to Cabela's, so we made a special detour to visit this shop near Olympia before our flight back to England on Tuesday night. Here he is with Rhiannon ready to go inside!
We had arranged to meet our old friends Rosie, Toby and Coral. Rhiannon and Toby were baby-friends together until we moved from San Diego to Norway in Oct 2006, and they hadn't seen each other in a long time but they were fast friends! Here are the 4 kids dancing around in front of Cabela's.
Inside the shop, there was an Aquarium that had both a warm fresh water tank and a cold fresh water tank. Watching fish isn't that exciting so we didn't spend too much time hanging around in here!
There is a giant mountain in the middle of the store which has all kinds of taxidermy projects scattered around it. Crazy!
While Rhodri took his time exploring the whole shop, Rosie and I let the kids run around the shop and play inside the hunting hides, the rifle gallery, and the camping tent sections. Then when we finally left a few hours later, we convoyed together to find the hotel that we had booked to stay together! Love it when a plan comes together...