This post is going to be really short because I was in Coeur d’Alene for less than 24 hours, but it felt wrong to include this in the last post since I was in a different state.

Steph’s grandfather built a cabin on Coeur d’Alene Lake many years ago. Her family still owns it and shares it and I got to enjoy it for a few hours. Before we went to the lake, Steph told me that Kendall Jenner has a grandma-chic house there. If like me, you have no clue what grandma-chic means, you can look at the pictures in this article that Architectural Digest wrote about the house. We joked about grandma-chic multiple times after that.

The lake is beautiful. Katie and I jumped in it that evening. It was freezing, so we were only in the lake for a few seconds at a time. We ended up jumping in 4 times. The cycle was: mentally prepare, get in the lake using the ladder on the dock, rush out of the water after a few seconds, wrap yourself in a towel, repeat. The longest I lasted in the lake was 20 seconds. Once we were done cold-plunging, we changed into dry clothes, had dinner with the rest of the family, and played games before bed.

After breakfast the next morning, we played more games. One of the games was a drawing challenge where we would pick 3 random marker colors and draw a scene that Katie came up with. One of the scenes was a living room and I chose to draw it in the grandma-chic style. After the games, I packed my car and drove to Portland, OR.

I would love to go back to Spokane and Coeur d’Alene. I really liked the size of Spokane, the lack of traffic, the fact that it’s surrounded by state parks, and the weather is actually pretty good most of the year. If Steph hasn’t found a nanny for the new school year, I might go back and help for a bit depending on what my job situation is at that point.