When in Walla Walla

I really like My Loving Spouse.  His driving job takes him away from home a tad more than we like, but we are determined to make the best of it.  Summer is here and I am out of school (small happy dance).  I cannot join the bus he is driving, but if they stay in one place long enough, I can join them when they stop.  Driving the Yakima Pippins Baseball team to their away games, put My Loving Spouse in Walla Walla, Washington and I was ready for a mini-break.

I arrived in the afternoon so we had a few hours to explore.  We walked down Main Street with a plethora of wine tasting rooms at our disposal.  Being the mature folks we are, the first shop we entered was…Inland Octopus!It is hard to walk past a great toy store!  We snagged a few things for THE Grandson’s birthday.  We might have even played with a few wind up toys.  If you are in WW, you need to come in here, quality toys and free gift wrapping.With the important things out-of-the-way, we did enter a tasting room.  Henry Earl had the ugliest furniture I have ever seen, but the staff was delightful and the wine…was sort of yummy.  I was the only one tasting wine as My Loving Spouse would be driving shortly, but half of wine tasting is chatting and he excels at chatting.  We got great advice about other things to see and do while in WW.  So when you are traveling it is a good thing to drink wine.Klickers is a one of a kind antique, fruit stand, ice cream, meat and cheese counter family owned business.  Antiques tucked into every corner and cubby, worn floors a front door that slams shut with a welcoming thud.  I was too enthralled to take many pictures.  If you are in WW, you should stop by just for fun and enjoy a store that could never be a chain…We were then off to the ball game!  The Pippins were playing the Walla Walla Sweets!  Talented baseball in a fun atmosphere.  An electronic score board, but an old hand changed scoreboard as well, with the face of the score changer seen through the last empty slot in the board.To say nothing of the WW Sweets mascot…Toward the end of the game, small children were seen with large trash bags.  They were roaming the stands for trash and helping to clean up.  I could not quite figure out what was going on until I saw the same children coming back without their trash bags, but with large Otter Pops.  The power of the Otter Pop!  What a great, simple and effective method of assisting in clean up.

WW’s farmer’s market was an absolute delight.  What I enjoy most about Farmer’s markets is originality and real farmers.  This one offered both!The iron worker complete with anvil was fun to watch…Flowers……and of course Walla Walla Sweet Onions!After that, My Loving Spouse was back to work and I was set to drive back home.  I just had one more stop to make…promising to only buy what I ‘needed’.Amazing how much relaxing can be found in a 24 hour get away…but I believe we did it!…and I am blessed.