Ski Weekend Day One

We have settled in to our home away from home here at the Hercules Inn, Unit Number 1. All is well except for the continued rolling up of businesses in Wallace. 

We drove into to town last night and after getting unpacked in Unit One, we promptly set out for dinner.

Our plan was to go to the 1313 Club for dinner and watch the opening round of the WCC tournament, featuring Gonzaga. The 1313 Club was closed...at 7:30 on a Friday. It turns out they are closed for some remodeling. The Smoke House was closed. The Fainting Goat was out of business.

Fortunately, the City Limits Bar and Grill was open and accommodating, except for the part where they closed at Nine. 

After dinner we returned to the Hercules to watch the basketball but I was unable to find the game on the telly. So, we dissolved ourselves into the Downton Abbey Marathon and I promptly fell asleep.

I have since learned that Gonzaga plays tonight instead of last night. I'm not sure how I misread that but it is not the first time.

We awoke this morning to a steady rainfall. It was decided to drive up to Lookout and check things out but we were doubtful that we would be skiing.

And we were right.

So we continued our drive to the east and drove to the Fifty Thousand Silver Dollar Bar. It's a gaudy tourist trap on the side of the highway that we enjoy visiting to see aisles and aisles of crap.

One could hardly imagine passing up gems such as these.

After we were done rambling the aisles, we returned to the west and drove to Kellogg. We checked out an Antique Shop and then found a bar, Dirty Ernie's, to have a couple of beers at.

We returned to the Herc for nap time and then out to dinner at the Moose Creek Grill. It's a new place for us and we liked it.

Now we have returned to our little suite and are crashing in front of more Downton Abbey.