Mt. Spokane

Yesterday we figured we better do something really fun with Mason and Cooper since we were going to abandon them on Monday for three days. So we decided to take them to the top of Mt. Spokane and have a picnic up there. Mason and Cooper were pretty excited, and I've never been to Mt. Spokane, that I can remember, so I was pretty excited too. Once we got to the top and got out of the car, we realized that we forgot one very important thing. It was not a warm 75 degrees like it was down at our house, it was a cool and windy 55 degrees. None of us were dressed for the weather. We did get a few shots before the boys begged to go back to the car.

Look at my poor little boys, they were so cold.

But we made them take one more picture with me. When I picked up Cooper, he asked me if he could climb in my tummy.

About half way down the mountain we found this area with a few picnic benches, so we got out and attempted to have a picnic. The weather had improved a bit. It was probably about 65 degrees and the wind was not as strong as it was at the top.

We gave the boys a blanket to snuggle up in together. Mason was fine with it but Cooper sure was not! He wanted nothing to do with eating outside. So we packed up our lunches and got back in the car.

On the way back down, every time the brakes were applied on a down hill slope, the car would shake really bad. The brakes were still working, but we figured we better have it looked at before we go to girls camp on Monday. We headed straight to Les Schwab were we found out that the front rotors needed to be replaced badly. Our fun day at Mt. Spokane turned into a fun day at Les Schwab. I think the boys had more fun at Les Schwab, running through the rows and rows of tires and eating tons of candy than they did at Mt. Spokane. Too bad the Les Schwab adventure was more expensive than the Mt. Spokane one.