Catching Up

We had some spare time Wednesday before our late afternoon flight 

North Spokane location

so we looked up a restaurant Rachel had recommended. 

Frank’s Diner has been a Spokane institution since 1991, serving great food in historic railway cars. (Link has interesting history of the cars)

What we didn’t realize was that there were two diners - one a couple of blocks from our hotel in Downtown and the other 30 minutes away in North Spokane. 

Guess which one we went to…. Oops!

Food was great (crispy deviled eggs are yummmmm), the rail car was fun and we had enough time so I’m glad we went. Next time we’ll try the one in downtown…

 Rhododendron 

Spokane International (GEG) is fairly small. It took us less than 30 minutes to return our rental car (and talk to the return guy for 5 minutes), walk to the opposite end of the airport to check-in, then back across for security and up and around for our gate. 

Granted it was mid-afternoon on a Tuesday, but there was no one in line at the Delta counter, one person ahead of us at security and only 3 other people waiting at our gate. I love small airports!

 Looks rough but we had only mild turbulence 

While we were away, Cyrus sent me (many!) photos of Coco Chai - Coco with Cyrus, Coco making friends with Leia, Coco being adorable.

 Coco Chai Princess Pie

The cat is shy but has gradually warmed up to us… all except for Pop. Maybe it’s his height? (It was his height with Leo’s new dog. Kenai shied away until Pop sat down, then they were best buds.) But tonight Pop was sitting on the couch and look who initiated contact….

Friends at last!