Davenport, Washington & 2 Rivers Casino Campground...

The road from L-town to Two Rivers Casino outside of Davenport on Lake Roosevelt long and somewhat dreary! Why is it the road to somewhere is always longer than the road back?

So yesterday we take a road trip to see some friends sing & play the drums (Blue Heeler is the group) at Customer Appreciation Day at the campground at Two Rivers Casino. It was great to hear Blue Heeler sing and T drum away ~ Awesome group! I think they were amazed we would drive 3 hours to see them and support them - it was worth it though! Beautiful campground, nice people and always a delight to hear the singing and drumming! We got out of the campbround about 5:00 and drove back to Spokane which was at least an hour back through Davenport and Reardan (never been there (REARDAN???) but they are having a MULES DAY celebration next weekend for all you MULES out there (for lack of a better word))!
After arriving back in Spokane we decided to go see the Spokane River as it is flowing at a very high stage with all the local flooding from the snowmelt and rain happening - it was pretty outstanding and I got some pictures though pictures never do justice for something like that.

Then it was off to River Park Square to eat at Olive Garden - the wait was 1 hour plus so while some of our group ran off and did some window shopping in the mall J & I decided to wait it out at the restaurant with the beeper in hand waiting for a table. We had the best seats in the house as we were sitting at the entrance and watching people come and go and it is fun just to people watch ya know - people are interesting creatures! J decided to order us some drinks as we were thirsty from the hour trek from Davenport. Anyhow, he ordered a brewsky and was sipping it down and I just had a Diet Coke in hand - for lack of a better drink (DIET PEPSI!!!). Anyhow this young couple (adults mind you) comes in and she has this 2.5 foot stuffed rag doll that....I kid you not....is dressed in clothes like the guy she is with, camo shorts and a t-shirt the same color as his and the doll has blonde hair just like her guy friend! Okay, so we are talking an adult female carrying a 2.5 foot rag doll with her guy friend and the rag doll and guy are dresed alike..... So, if anyone knows how outspoken J can be, he stops them as they enter and asks the girl if the rag doll is her boyfriend and she says no and laughs (the girl was actually pretty cute about it), J then says well the doll is dressed just like your guy friend and she tells J that the guy (not the doll) is her boyfriend and he made the rag doll for her and he wants her to carry it around with her. I say "how cute?" for lack of something better to say! J starts laughing and the older couple sitting next to us hears the conversation and the gentleman says "I would say to him, if you made it then YOU carry it!".... J starts laughing hysterically about it, most of the laughter of course because he has been buzzed by his brewsky and has basically nothing to eat.....we now have girls outside the restaurant laughing at us because J is laughing so hysterically and the 3 guys taking names looking at us all because now not only are we laughing but the older couple is laughing..... so the rag doll couple leaves and goes outside (not knowing that we are laughing about the doll) and J gets up and goes to the lobby and tells the girls who are laughing at him what the heck HE is hysterically laughing about, then he tells the nametakers at the front entrance......OH MY, OH MY? The couples of today never fail to amaze me! I wonder if the rag doll has clothes that match all her boyfriend's clothes? Is the doll anatomically correct? Did they ask for a booster seat when they were seated to eat last night? We sent the waitress to look for them but she came back with no report and our friend went out looking through the restaurant to no avail!

MY O MY....