Well, yesterday was a long day (very long...), but we had a lot of fun! We ended up leaving later than I had planned, mainly because SOME IDIOT forgot to run the portable dishwasher the night before, so that there would be no dirty dishes to stink up the place in our absence! We ended up sitting around for a bit waiting for it to finish the wash cycle so we could turn off the water! But we did get on the road, and so far, the trip has been worth it - I have discovered that Jessica LOVES taking pictures and Jordan is a real trooper - not one complaint about having his 6'2" crammed into the back seat for hours!
The trip started off innocuously enough, with a 20 minute wait at the border crossing into the US. While we were sitting there, a woman wearing a CBSA uniform & and carrying a foil-covered tray walked past us to towards the US border office. As we watched, she handed the tray of goodies over to one of her American counterparts, chatted a few moments, and headed back to the Canadian border office. Talk about cross-border friendship - sharing goodies! No problems crossing the border after that - but the US border guards did smirk when they heard that I worked for CRA! Hmm, my first attempt to upload a picture here failed miserably...I'll have to try next time...
A quick stop at the Walmart in Thief River Falls got us some lunch and goodies for the road (thanks for the suggestion, Pat, we all had lots of fun wondering around in the store and Jordan was quite impressed with the selection of books)! Back on the road again, we were absolutely blown away by the first sight of Duluth - yes, Duluth! We ended up detouring there for a couple of hours, checking out the funky waterfront and the multi-level interstate construction - vague childhood memories here, maybe I've been here before? If so, I guess the kids are right, they always tell me that holidays they took when they were too young to remember don't count! Well, this one sure will, lol!
Oh, and we absolutely LOVE Navi, she is more than a pretty toy! She has taken us safely all this way, including down to the harbour and through all of that construction in Duluth. She helped us find a Subway for supper, and just about everything else you can think of!
We didn't quite make it to the Sault, but we are currently in Newberry, Michigan - we drove for hours last night trying to find a hotel (OKAY, DAD, YOU WERE RIGHT) - who knew there would be a runner's convention, 5 local festivals & reunions for ALL of the high schools in the upper peninsula going on this weekend. But find a room we did, and before I could say "these beds are hard as a rock", I woke up with the sun shining in my eyes!
Back on the road again in a couple of minutes, destination - Ottawa (if they let us back in to Canada, that is)!
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