Spokane Road Trip

I know!

It’s been forever since I’ve done a blog post. I have a million excuses but I’m sure you’re all tired of hearing them, so I’m just going to move on!

Donna and I went on a road trip over to Spokane a couple weekends ago. I wanted to check out The Mad Hatter Sale that Junebug was putting on and I had some other things on my list of “things to do in Spokane” that I needed to check out.

We decided that taking HWY I-90 was boring…A nice change would be HWY 2.

The first stop was right outside of Cashmere at this great little French bakery.

Donna and I could have bought them out! But we just bought a couple snacks for the trip.

We highly recommend stopping here if you’re passing through Cashmere for any reason at all. I promise when you leave this bakery you will be going home, remodeling your kitchen to a French Country theme, then bustin out that Julia Childs Mastering French Cooking cookbook you bought at Costco.

Once arriving in Spokane,

Donna and I had to go check out Frank’s Diner for dinner.

Set inside an old diner train car, the ambiance is really fantastic. The food is good and I think everyone should make at least one stop at Frank’s while in Spokane.

I had the hot turkey sandwich.

Donna had the chicken pot pie

From there we ended up at the Northern Quest Casino where we both LOST OUR ……………

Well let’s just move on. That my friends, is a part of the trip we shall never speak of again!

You know I got “the problem” right?"

Saturday morning we were up bright and early so we could make our way to

The Mad Hatter Antique Sale put on by Junebug

Held at the 5 mile Prairie Grange

They had it fixed up all cute.

Donna and Joy letting me know they had Diet Cokes and I didn’t! Yeah, they’re still my friends!

Check out Auntie Joy’s Blog for some really great pictures of the sale.

All the ladies were dressed so cute in their Mad Hatter outfits.

I thought this was an excellent use for a baby bassinet…….packed full of Chocolate Zucchini Bread for sale.

Your hostesses with the mostest

The food at this show was OUT OF THIS WORLD!!!!!!

This is some of the pumpkin bisque soup that had seasoned popcorn in it. OH MY GOD!!!! It was like crack! We just wanted to go back over and over.

My other favorite was the Zucchini Bisque Soup with a sticky rice, sage, huckleberry dumpling in it.

YEAH!!!

I’m not kidding! It was so stinkin good.

As I’m typing this I wish I had some.

Junebug herself with the Queens of the fantastic food Lynn and Sherry.

They really did a great job!

More pictures

After the leaving The Mad Hatter Show we headed to the highly recommended, must see, don’t miss, everyone should go here………………………..

Hurd Mercantile

I’m in love with this store!

I saw pictures of this fabulous store in Mary Jane’s Farm Magazine. So I had to see it for myself.

A great Farm Chicks Display

I had such a great time at this store in addition to finding A LOT of treasure that came home with me.

I’m thinkin maybe Come Junk With Us should do a Junk Junket here.

After a day of shopping Donna and I went to Chaps for dinner, where we met

Auntie Joy and Hubby

Luluz and Hubby

and

one of The Funky Junk Sisters Dixie.

The food was fabulous as usual, the company was even better. It was so much fun getting to visit with these ladies (and husbands) outside of the antiques sales where we usually see each other.

It was just a nice change.

So a Timi Road Trip can’t ever be without some sort of problem. This trip wasn’t an exception.

Donna and I were headed out of town and sure enough

I-90 CLOSED DUE TO DUST STORM!

This is the fastest way back home which is what we were planning on.

So it was back to HWY 2 to go out around the dust storm.

My pictures aren’t that great (as usual) but you can see the dust storm in the distance.

What looks like white clouds is really the dust storm

It took 4 hours longer than it should have and it was the most boring drive EVER! Not since driving across Texas have I ever seen so much of NOTHING!

This really was a great trip!

Donna and I had the best time.

I got a lot of great ideas for an upcoming Junk Junket I’m planning.

This last weekend I went to the Sandpoint Antique and Design Show here in the Seattle area. This is the first time I have ever been to this show.

DAMN!! Have I been missin out!

Check out
Deb Kennedy’s pictures

Salvage Studio

Queen of Tart

Luluz

It was so fun to meet all the vendors there. I bought this beautiful swanky faux fur vintage coat. Now I’m excited for it to get cold so I can wear it.

If you’re in the area don’t miss the December 6th show.

Have a great day!