Spokane Excursion

We started exploring the area on Friday by going golfing.  There is a nice little 9 hole par 3 course a couple of miles from our RV park.  The longest hole is 115 yards.  The course is called Pine Acres and here is their website http://www.pineacresgolf.com/.  It is really nice how they kept all the pine trees on the course as it did make the short holes very challenging.  Fran was excited to get her second par on a hole!  The best part, no holes with water and no balls were lost!

On Saturday we thought we would take the bikes out for a ride.  As we are near the Mount Spokane State Park that sounded like a nice place to go.  It was a 15 mile, very scenic, drive to the top of Mount Spokane, which still has many feet of snow on it.  They could still be skiing and snow boarding if the ski lifts were open.  Needless to say there was no bike riding, or hiking, at the park yet.  Here are some pictures of the view from where the road ends.

Since we had the bikes in the truck we decided to seek out another park.  We had heard about the Riverfront Park in downtown Spokane so off we went.  It is a small park right downtown next to the river.  We could ride our bikes around but the park was not that large for extensive riding.  The best part was looking at the waterfalls at the park.  The water flowing over these falls is very powerful.

It was spectacular to see these falls up so close.  We had a picnic lunch in the park, then headed back to the RV park.

We have altered our plans a little for the next few weeks.  In looking at our resource material we read about Leavenworth, Washington, which is about 180 miles west of where we are at.  This town is made up like a Bavarian town in the Alps.  Here is their website http://www.leavenworth.org/modules/pages/index.php?pageid=1.  We are headed there at the end of this week and will be staying a week.  From there we will head north into British Columbia, Canada to the town of Oliver.  This town is at the start of the Canadian version of Napa Valley.  There is supposed to be numerous wineries and some very good wines to taste, so of course we are going!  From there we will head onto Banff to meet up with our friends, most likely stopping on the way for a few days at a town that looks interesting.