Clarkston Costco

Apparently today is National Best Friends Day. Well that is fitting because I bought this cute little sign for my house yesterday that says, "Friends are the Family you choose." Let me tell ya about some of my chosen family, these two yayhoos. These two decided today on our one communal day off that we should make an epic road trip to Clarkston to check off my last Costco east of the mountains. They pretty much rock.

Clarkston

First off, Clarkston......what a town! This is a 2+ hour drive from Spokane on a pretty unpopulated highway. For all those who went to Lakeview, some pretty similar sights to our driving around Oregon last summer. So we're right outside of Colfax and we see a trooper on the side of the road carrying a rifle....at first I'm a little appalled and then I realize he is putting an animal out of his misery. Toto we aren't in Kansas anymore!

What's a trip to Costco without trying out the merchandise?

So then we finally arrived in Clarkston, to which I'm very surprised even has a Costco because the population is a little over 7000. Obviously, it is a big hub for all the surroundings areas so there were all these families stocking up big time! When we walked in the first conversation we overheard went like this......

Person 1: What do you buy a person having a baby who already has a kid?



Person 2: A gun.....and some bullets.

.......needless to say we got real far away from them.....FAST!

We had a nice lunch at Costco and did some more lovely people watching.

Then we decided to stop by Pullman on the way home and check out WSU, because none of us had ever been there. I'm sure if you all would have seen our shocked faces at the size of that place you would laughed real hard. Lets just say its a little bigger than Whitworth ;) We also had a good laugh that Greek Row look pretty much straight out of the movies with people in swimwear playing beer pong. But, then again when we got home our neighbors didn't look much different......so there's that.

In all, I'm pretty darn blessed with these two as part of my Whitworth family, can't wait for the whole gang to be back together in the fall.