We try to attend as many library programs as possible and there was no way Sloan was missing the one held this past weekend. The Spokane County Library District is in the middle of its “Swifties Celebrations” tour that is stopping at the different branches in the district. Last Saturday, the tour arrived at our home branch—the Spokane Valley Library.

Sloan and I had the date circled on our calendar and showed up on Saturday with relatively high expectations. We weren’t disappointed.

We attended the Swifties Celebrations event at the Spokane County Library (Spokane County Library District) on Saturday, Feb. 15.

We entered the programming room at the Spokane Valley Library with “Welcome to New York” filling the room. With the positive energy swirling, Sloan picked up some props and posed for photos in front of the Swiftie backdrop.

The first thing Sloan did at the Swifties Celebrations event was to take a photo in front of the backdrop.

After the photo op, we found a seat at one of the craft tables. With all the new pictures on my phone, we needed a cool spot to place them once developed. Thank goodness, one of the crafts offered was a photo frame. Sloan and I both created our own.

The frames that Sloan and I made at the Spokane County Library District’s Swifties Celebrations.

Once we put the finishing touches on our frames, it was onto the next craft. Anyone want to guess what it was? Yep, friendship bracelets. Sloan had a great time standing up at the craft supply station with the librarians and other attendees as she strung her bracelet together.

Sloan’s finished friendship bracelet she made at the Spokane Valley Library.

With our crafts completed, Sloan split her time between two activities. The first one was Taylor Swift trivia. Every 15 minutes, one of the librarians would ask questions only Swifties would know about their favorite music star. In between the trivia sessions, Sloan was roaming the library participating in the Taylor Swift scavenger hunt. The librarians hid Taylor Swift album cover art throughout the facility and let me tell you—it wasn’t easy. Sloan did her best to scour the shelves, nooks, and crannies of the library to find all of Swift’s albums from Reputation to Speak Now to 1989 to all her other defining work.

Sloan finds Taylor’s “Folklore” album art at the end of one of the library’s shelves.

But Sloan wouldn’t let herself get too lost in the throes of the shelves and books because she had a trivia contest to win. We kept our eyes on the clock so we would make each round of trivia at each 15-minute interval. It paid off. In an event targeted at children in the 10-14 age range, my soon-to-be 8-year-old staved off the other girls (and a couple moms) to narrowly win the contest. Her victory notched her a special Taylor Swift prize.

Sloan poses in front of the trivia scoreboard. She won!

Sloan wasn’t the only one who had fun. This dad (who typically isn’t a Swiftie despite what my frame said) had a really enjoyable afternoon as well. For those who live in the Spokane area with a little Swiftie, you can attend the remaining stops of the “Swifties Celebrations” when it visits the Cheney Library (Feb. 22) and the North Spokane Library (March 1). Sloan and I highly recommend it! Don’t Blink.