Welcome to Spokane/Spo-can

Just how do you pronounce that thing anyway? Silly north-westerners :P

Well, as Memiki said, we made it alright. After 37 hours on a train, you learn a few things:

1) Wisconsin and Minnesota are the same state, and very pleasant to watch fly by your window.

2) North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho are also the same state, but even with a fiddler, guitar-er, and singer on the train, it is still the most boring state in the Union.

3) Lamb is classified as "other meat".

4) The Lounge is best experienced at 5:45 am, just before the sunrise, when the only other people in there are the woman cleaning off the tables and a crazy old guy with a stick.

5) Sleeper cars are for those who wish to be pampered. Seriously, what's up with that?

6) Red wine in a wine glass in a dining car that travels with an unpredictable list: recipe for a disaster and change of clothes.

But, we made it! And, Memiki has surprises for all of us (woot!), so everyone be nice to her. Eagerly awaiting everyone else's arrival, and the events that start on Friday! But now we must go, there's a Stoner Ice Cream we can see from our hotel window, and who can pass up a good Cold Stone Creamery, right?