Sunday, August 26 – Fresh raspberries for a morning snack after our walk compliments of the Farmers Market. We went to church in Cheney and then found their bike trail – beautiful ride with high rock walls in places and it went by a gorgeous lake abour 80 feet below the trail just one small boat with a guy fishing. On the way back the boat was still there and a girl was swimming toward it – she had to be a heck of a swimmer to get from anywhere on the lake to there. Not sure how deep it was but it was very clear.

 

We got back to camp just in time for the ice cream social, then lunch! Now we should be able to get another Pickleball match in – we have played several times here and taught a couple kids how to play so we could play doubles and the one young lad (Jacob) is really good.

 

Ah, Pickleball, then popcorn and a movie.

 

Saturday August 25^th – Coffee, walk, more coffee and a little toast before heading to the Farmer’s Market. We did check out the small town this campground has for a mailing address and found a church for tomorrow. It was an indoor market – I haven’t seen the one in Waterloo open but the building was similar. Some pretty unusual things and a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables that were almost all organic. Also a lot of things from goats or their milk. We did try a French onion tart – pretty tasty. Linda found a couple things the Grandkids can’t live without – we do miss them already. The Green/Recycle store was way over the top – they even had all the things you need to set up a bee hive, kits for rain barrels, even reusable sandwich bags! I said over the top… then we stopped at a smaller outdoor farmers market but it was about done and well picked over.

 

The Rose Window

Next stop was a Gothic Cathedral  (Episcopal) that was started in the 20’s, held up by the depression and WW2 and they are still adding stain glass windows when donors are available. It was beautiful and one of a kind as the architect designed each stone and had them cut and then numbered and delivered. It was and interesting tour and during our discussions we found our guide was also Catholic. He was especially knowledgeable about the stories told by the stain glass windows.

 

The little Ginger Thai restaurant across the street beckoned us and we branched out again – ginger spinach salad, miso soup and pad thai chicken. I’m glad we split all that because it was a lot of food and all very good. We have eaten out twice since we left home and both were interesting experiences.

 

Last stop for the day – Manito Park – one of many Spokane city parks. This one is known for the Japanese garden, lilac garden, the Rose garden, and the conservatory. The roses were spectacular to say the least and it also had an area with Empire Dahlia’s – they are huge and some were quite different. Just like the roses you had to watch when smelling as the bees also loved them.