Seattle was awesome! If you haven't been make sure to visit and spend a day in the Public Market. Sooo great! A huge Picasso show is coming in October if anyone's visiting in the fall. We said goodbye to Mindi and Lina, grabbed coffee and hit the road!
First stop... Roslyn, WA. A big shout out to Geb Byers who suggested a visit. This is a coal mining town that basically still looks the way it did at the turn of the century. It's also the filming site for the TV show 'Northern Exposure'. So cool! We walked around and checked out the shops and historical signs before we went and grabbed a coffee. We met Jennifer, the President of the Downtown Association, who gave us a brief history of her building. It used to be a medical building with a physician and a dentist who basically setup shop next to the mining line. She pointed us in the way of the incredibly old cemetery which is segregated by ethnicity and lineage. Very neat... Super cool town lost in time!After Roslyn we booked it to Spokane. But not before I (Maura) was pulled over by a State Trooper on I-90. Apparently he didn't approve of me going 14 miles over the speed limit. Can't imagine why?! Oh well, I've never been pulled over in my life so if it was going to happen it might as well be on this road trip. And for those of you who know my bucket list for this trip, a speeding ticket is up my alley. But fortunately we had a really nice trooper who took pity on two cute girls from NY who have never been in Washington State before.
Onto Spokane. Lets just say if you feel the need to see Spokane simply pull off the highway, get an ice cream at Dick's, try to ignore the toothless people and get back on the highway. After driving through town for about 2 minutes we came to this conclusion, grabbed our ice cream and booked it. So not worth anything but a vanilla shake! (And for all of you Seaford peeps) Dick's is exactly like All American but not nearly as good. What could be? PS, Jesse had to hear that comment 6 times and still wants to kill me for it. But oh well. Back to the road.
We drove through the Northern part of Idaho (the thin part). From what we saw Idaho is quite picturesque and the speed limit is 75. Very helpful when you're trying to make time. Harrison and Wallace are two super cute towns we passed and if we didn't have reservations we probably would have stopped in one of those two beautiful towns. But alas we trekked on to Blue Mountain. Our room is enormous, the bed is enormous, the bathroom is enormous. Pretty much, this place is great. We're doing our laundry and watching 'Connie & Carla'. Who wouldn't love that?
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