Sunday Dinner in Winthrop

This short blog post is a fun little whimsical walk around a small part of Winthrop, WA and a glorious Sunday dinner we had there.

We stayed for two nights on our excursion to the North Cascades at the Methow River Lodge and Cabins in Winthrop. This is the front of the motel as seen from the parking lot.

We had a room on the second floor and the view off the back deck was very pleasant. It was a nice temperature with virtually no wind the two evenings we were there. This is the Methow River flowing from left to right.

Just out the front of the motel was a walking trail that wandered around toward down town Winthrop. It is named the Susan Stephens Walking Trail. Wanting to stretch our legs after the long journey we decided to explore the trail. Our first encounter along the trail was this ice rink. It was not cold enough for the rink to be operating, thank goodness, but we are sure it will start up soon. Later in the winter it will be very busy.

Walking past the ice rink you make a right on the trail and come upon this rather nice bridge. It seems extremely overbuilt for a walking trail but is very well done. It was built in 2011-2012 and is called the Spring Creek Pedestrian Bridge. It is a 385-foot long clear-span, cable-stay structure over the Methow River. The walking surface is preformed concrete panels. The bridge should last quite a while.

In this image, taken looking over the side of the bridge, Spring Creek is in the foreground feeding into the Methow River in the back flowing left to right.

The town of Winthrop is an old Western Themed town with wooden sidewalks.

Many of the businesses and buildings support the old west theme.

Our favorite place and reason for going into town is Sheri´s Sweet Shoppe. What a great find. If you like chocolate or just want an ice cream fix, this is the place to go in Winthrop.

We thought we would splurge on Sunday dinner and so we each had two scoops of home made ice cream, it was delicious. As they say eat dessert first

There are various signs throughout the establishment purporting the marvelous benefits of ice cream.

This sign provides another reason to consume the creamy delicacy.

And here is your word puzzle for the occasion. We were not stressed but it is a great reason.

Looking around Winthrop we saw these fire hydrants with antennae sticking up. No they are not radio controlled or part of the wi-fi network, at least we don´t think so. The antennae allows the fire department to find the hydrant in case of deep snow and shows the snow plows where the hydrants are located. It would seem that it gets cold and snows a bit in this part of the country in winter.

The is one last sign we encountered in Sheri´s - pretty self explanatory.

This image is a stand alone image, not in Winthrop - On Monday of our excursion we were in Marblemount and had lunch at Up River Grill and Taproom. This looks like an upside down light bulb but is actually a container in which they bring water to your table when you have lunch there. It is a wonderful place to eat.

The top that appears to be the end that gets screwed into the light socket has a cork stopper inside and it just pulls off allowing you to pour the water. The vessel comes from Terramar Brewing & Distilling in Edison WA. Up River buys alcohol from them and it comes in these vessels. We thought they were rather fascinating and a great repurpose of the container.

We hope you got a chuckle out of this whimsical post about Winthrop, Ice Cream, and Water bottles. When you find yourself next in Winthrop be sure and stop in at Sheri´s and try their ice cream and chocolates, it is fabulous.

Let us know if you have any questions.
All the best
George and Deanna