We crossed the border from Canada to the USA yesterday afternoon. The crossing was interesting. After checking out our passports the border patrolman asked us to line up so that the motor home could be X-rayed. He said all three people and the dog needed to be in the cab section so that they wouldn’t be harmed. We’ve been to Canada before but this never happened. It must be from our Homeland Security. We wished we would have taken a picture of the process but we were caught by surprise and didn’t think of it at the time. You can imagine how large that X-ray machine was.
Today is Saturday. Thursday and Friday were driving days with little to talk about on the blog. We stayed in the Walmart parking lots for our last two nights in Canada.
We are in Leavenworth, Washington today and this is one of my favorite places to visit in the state of Washington. Leavenworth’s nickname is “German town”. Every store and restaurant looks and feels like you are in Germany. There is a wonderful year round Christmas store called “Kris Kringle”. It is the most incredible Christmas store I’ve ever been in. I loved revisiting it. I think Bill was a little worried because the last time we were here we spent quite a bit of money. I was good today and just bought the small pyramid candles that are so hard to find.
As we wandered through the town Robbie had a Jalapeno Cheddarwurst and Bill bought German Hot Links to barbecue tonight. We also visited the German bakeries. Yum!
Tomorrow we hope to be off early for Seattle.
