I'm the type of person that searches before asking, but the funny thing with the posts on here is that any from 2009 and earlier says Spokane's fun and has a lot of good shopping, but any posts after say the place is a dump (even opinions from the same posters change after this time). So has anyone been to Spokane in like the last year or two? How is the shopping and sight seeing situation?
And before anyone suggests it, Seattle is out of the question for this trip. I've been there many times and love it, but with our time line it's not going to happen.