15/16MAY09 - Kittitas, WA

Friday, 15MAY, we took off to see Bonnie & Steve Kiesel who live outside of Kittitas, WA. For more on Dan’s cousin Steve and wife Bonnie, see the below BLOG entry:

http://theryanrvexpress.blogspot.com/2008/06/20-25jun08-kittitas-wa.html

Unfortunately, it turns out Bonnie would not be home since she was leaving Thursday with Steve’s oldest sister, Kathy, to check out the casinos in Reno & Tahoe. But Dan wanted to talk face-to-face with Steve about getting electricity on our property, because Steve was once a lineman for the county (or was it Wichita Lineman?). Steve wasn’t entirely free for the weekend, since he was playing RV host/security at the Ellensburg fairgrounds for a western art show that was happening that weekend.

http://www.westernartassociation.org/

Even though he was semi-occupied, we still found plenty of time to discuss the proper way to get electricity to our property, socialize, enjoy a catfish dinner at the Moose Lodge, and just relax and enjoy the excellent late spring weather. Steve & Dan also found time to check out the latest brews at the Iron Horse Micro Brewery. For some reason they both really like the Irish Death? Unfortunately the brand new Ellensburg Distillery, one door down from Iron Horse, was never open to sample their wares (probably a good thing). On Saturday night we attended the Art Show cocktail party followed by the Art Auction. In our opinion, it looked like the prices paid at the auction were much less than what was being asked for at the Art Show?

http://www.iron-horse-brewery.com/

http://www.theellensburgdistillery.com/1.html

Sunday it was back to Monroe area so Dan can depart on business trip to Santa Rosa on Monday morning.