We are staying at a very nice state park. The sites are manicured and there is plenty of room between each RV. There is a 10 mile bicycle trail that goes through the park and across the river at two points. This evening we walked along the river to the beach and boat ramp.
The park is at the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia rivers. Our weather has been very nice but the surrounding skys of this entire area are heavy with smoke. A fire started in a nearby canyon on Friday and has now burned over 1500 acres. The resulting haze reminds us of the skys in L.A.The scenery in this area is a stark contrast to the beauty we found in Northern Idaho. Here the hills are brown with few trees.
We started our day with a visit to Auto Zone where it was confirmed, our battery has dead cells. With only 10,000 miles on our car, we will be making a visit to the dealer tomorrow for a replacement. We headed to Lake Chelan, about 40 miles north of Wenatchee. It was one of the busiest areas we have visited on our trip. We tried to eat our lunch in one of the lakefront parks but there were no available parking spaces and every table was taken. The water was full of toys, boats and people. We headed up the East side of the lake to the town of Manson. We ended up eating our lunch in the car in the parking lot of Blueberry Hills Farm. We then went into their restaurant and each had a piece of pie (1 mixed berry and 1 apricot). The view was beautiful but the pie did not hold a candle to my sister Irene's pies!
On our return drive to Wenatchee we made the last stop of the day at Ohme Gardens. They are perched high on a bluff overlooking the Columbia River. The gardens were started in 1929 and have meandering stone paths throughout many acres of plantings. 
Here we are at one of the bluff overlooks at Ohme Gardens. The Columbia River is in the background.
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