Fingerprints in Spokane

This past week we had to drive to Spokane to have our fingerprints done. During our home study we had our fingerprints done in Lewiston for our background investigation, but that was not good enough for USCIS. They required us to have them taken at the nearest USCIS office, which is in Spokane. We decided to drive out there the night before to make sure we would be there on time (in case the weather was bad). Matt's dad travels for work so he reserved our hotel room for us using his rewards points. We ended up with a two- bedroom suite that had two full baths and three nice flat- screen t.v.s. Not too shabby, considering at home we have one bathroom and we watch t.v. on our computer. We wish we could have spent more than 14 hours in the hotel room.

It took us a little while to find the right building and parking because we have not spent much time in downtown Spokane. By the time we went through security, we made it to the office a couple of minutes late. Matt's appointment was at 1:00 and mine was at 2:00. We were both finished at 1:10. (Who knows why we both had hour- long appointments.) We drove for a total of more than seven hours and spent a night in a hotel all for a fingerprint appointment that took less than 10 minutes. We love living in a small town, but I guess it's times like this that it is nice to live closer to a major city. Well, at least we accomplished another adoption task, we had nice weather and we were able to enjoy some northern Idaho scenery.

The dogs enjoyed having their own private bedroom.
They are not spoiled at all.