After the Breakfast Buffet, we gathered in the lobby to board the bus about 8:30AM. I got the seat that I wanted in the back of the bus and posted my "Nester" sign below the window. I gave Pat Sharp, who was sitting behind my seat, a paper so she could make her "Nester" sign. We traveled though the channeled scablands. We saw the lakes around Sprague, ring dike craters, loess islands, pillow and columnar basalt and discussed the numerous lava flows.
We had dinner at the hotel and some of us went with Don Popejoy and Molly Smith on a walking tour along the Spokane River. We passed the clock tower. It is all that remains of the Great Northern Train Station that was unfortunately demolished in the early 1970s. We saw the "Centennial Sculpture" which floats in the Spokane River. A few people slid down the slide of Spokane's "Red Wagon" sculpture. I and a few others braved walking through the Riverfront "big sprinkler" Fountain. We saw the carrousel, a handsome antique built in 1909 by Charles Looff, but no one wanted to ride. Several people rode the Gondola River over the Spokane River and Falls and under the Monroe Street Bridge as the sun was setting. It was dark by the time that we returned to the hotel.
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