So as luck would have it Dave's boss asked him to go up to Spokane and train some new employees at the FairField Air Force Base GNC. There manager left and the store needed fast attention. It was a trial to see if Dave wanted to take over the store permanently. We left Thursday morning early and got to the base about 11 pm. We dropped Dave off after getting weekend passes and headed to lunch.
Me and the girls hit up a McDonald's with a play place for about an hour. Than we found our motel Windgate by Windham, near the airport and checked in.
Than we got back in the car and found our way to Cheney. It is a one horse kind of town, but we spent the day in town looking at every apartment that would suit our family. I looked at 3 apartments the first stop, than a 4th, and those were my prior appointments. Than as I was getting extremely frustrated thinking I would have to lower my standards, I passed a sign for a duplex that was being rented. I called the Real Estate Agent and saw it 10-15 min later. It is the same size as our current apartment and fit all of our needs except the fact that it required a stackable washer and dryer not side by side.
We continued to browse through the town, and went to some stores that were recommended. We ate some donuts than decided we were beat and headed back to Air Way Heights. We went in the BX part of Dave's work and discovered that anything but food was not anything we could buy. So it became immediately boring.
Dave got through with work around 6 and we hit up KFC on the way back to the hotel.
Daphne discovering what a biscuit and barbecue sauce tasted like.
Sami, deciding she was done eating, even though you hadn't eaten.
My silly husband sucking the honey out of the packets... shouldn't expect anything less.
We got back to the hotel after stopping for a few necessities like tylenol. For some reason I had the worst headache all day. And it finally went away after taking medicine. I thought it had something to do with the different altitude since Cheney is all woods and colder than Kennewick, but than in the middle of the night when I went to the bathroom I discovered I had been so pre-occupied I didn't realize that I hadn't gone for about 4-5 hours... I was dehydrated.
My body ached from the day and so we got the girls to bed, and I soaked in the nice hot bath tub. Dave's boss messed up on our room and so we had a King bed and nothing else. So we made a bed for Sami on the chair with the ottoman, and had the pop up crib for Daphne. They had a long day of fun.
The next day we took Dave to work after eating some continental belgian waffles, and than headed back to Cheney to get things rolling for the duplex. We decided we could just sell our current Washer and dryer and buy a stackable set in time... besides there was a laundromat down the street and seriously I think I will have time to go, since there is nothing else to do in Cheney. Seriously there isn't even a Redbox there. It's crazy. Our house will be on one side of town and the school is on the other side of town and it takes us 5 min to get to the school from our house... it's a tiny town. But there are convinces of home, everything but a hospital or doctor's office, everyone just goes to Spokane which is 15-20 min away.
After hanging out in Cheney for a bit we came back to relax and watch some cartoons in the hotel.
For some reason she gets the biggest kick out of putting her fingers in my mouth.
Needless to say we had a fun few hours in the hotel. Than we decided before we picked up Dave we would go check out the local Wal-Mart. As we were killing time, I got a call and we were needed back in Cheney to sign the final papers and pay our deposit. I jumped back on the US 2 and got stuck in some major traffic. A Explorer had ran into the back of a ETA Spokane transit and they had to saw off the top of the Explorer to get the couple out. Crazily enough the lady had minor injuries and her husband had none. I would have never thought that would be possible seeing the gutted car. And to top it off I saw people taking pictures on there cell phones of the wreck... Seriously anyone who does that... THAT IS MESSED UP!!!
I called my agent and she told me the quick way back and so I flipped a U and was back in Cheney in 15 min. Signed the papers and was only 15 min late in picking up Dave from work.
We jumped on the road and headed into Spokane to have some fun our last night in town.
We found a mall the North Town Mall and ate some yummy Chinese.
We walked around a bit and checked out some stores, i bought some cute earrings, and than we headed down to the Lower Level to check out the giant arcade area. They had a train ride, and Sami earned herself a trip. They also had a magic motion ride that I went on a roller coaster ride on, it was fun. Than we topped off the night with some ice cream from Baskin Robbins and headed back to the hotel. I think I am going to like Spokane!
In the morning we had some more waffles and than Dave took him self to the base and we just stayed back and got ready to go home. I gave the girls there bath, and they enjoyed it of course, as usual!
Dave picked us up in the lobby at 11:30 and we got loaded and headed to Cheney. I took him and showed him the duplex, and than we circled around passed the school and back to the entrance of town. In 15 min. We ate some lunch at the Safeway deli. I hit up a used book store that was going out of business and we were on our way. We got home around 4 pm. And I packed 7 boxes before relaxing for the night.
It was fun! We got a lot accomplished!
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