Spokane

For Mass today we decided to head into Spokane.  It's only about an hour away from our campsite, we missed all the masses near our campsite (Saturday masses only), and we wouldn't have a chance to be back in Spokane any time soon.  Bill did some searching and found St. Aloysius on Gonzaga's campus.

It was a beautiful building and a great mass.  The kids were fascinated with the inside, since our church is a very modern one and this one is a more traditional one.   Today's reading was about Martha complaining to the Lord about Mary sitting on her duff and not helping her out.  The priest went ahead and agreed with her, which earned him some applause, but then he went on about hospitality and our responsibilities in this world.  It was a good homily.        

Afterwards, we took some time to check out the outdoors.  There's a beautiful grotto, so we spent some time in prayer there before heading out.            

We toodled around Spokane for a bit.  There are beautiful waterfalls.  It was a very warm day, and it's hard to find a place to park our beastie, so much of what we saw was from the car.  We enjoyed our time there are are glad we made the trek!