Spokane Trip

 Ok...Robin shamed me into finally taking time to figure out how to download my photos and start posting a few things on my blog again....it wasn't as hard as I thought it might be.  The above two photos are in a little town going towards Spokane...I can't even remember the name of it.  I'm going to have to get the map out and figure it out.  Something that ended in "ville"...
Anyway, it was really cool.  It was Saturday morning, and we had spent Friday night in Pasco.  Weather was fine.  Then we hit snow on the way up...not bad.  This town looked pretty quaint when we pulled in to get gas, so we drove through it.  I remembered I needed a curling iron and some mousse, so we stopped.  They were having their "shop with a cop"...and evidently the Walgreen's we stopped at was the only shopping place in town.  But, it was pretty cool.  On the way back home on Sunday, we stopped in this town and ate breakfast.

These two photos are in the Davenport, the UPPPP scale hotel we stayed at.  Our division has had a Christmas party for managers here for a few years.  Since this was Jeff's last year, we thought we should attend.  It is so gorgeous...you just can't believe it.  The gingerbread houses are their "Festival of Trees"...it is rather interesting although this was about the poorest year I've seen.  Still, it's different and fun.  The theme was Super Hero's and there were some pretty cool houses.
When we left our party, it was snowing very hard, and we were a little worried about the drive home...as we should have been.  From Spokane to Pasco wasn't too good.  Then it cleared up and we thought it would be okay.  But from Pendleton to Boise was a nightmare.  The Blues had very heavy snow, and all trucks had to pull over and put chains on.  It was a one lane road, and we had pretty much had it by the time we finally got into Boise, so we just spent the night there and came home on Monday.  It was a great time though.
The division manager had everyone tell their favorite Christmas.  Jeff said it was the first year we held it in our new home...before we even moved in.  We had drop cloths on the floor and the kids had fun playing in the cabinet bases...and getting covered in sawdust.  But we had a tree and had room for everyone to enjoy themselves.  He loves all the kids and grandkids and is so proud of them all.  I was thrilled that he had that memory to share.