Gone to the USA

Went to the USA today. It was my first official - drive - across the boarder. I have flown to the US many times, but never had the experience of driving. It was everything I expected... well, actually it wasn't. First it was 1.5 hours of waiting in a long line of cars.. crawling slowly towards the green arrowed lane. Then some guy asked us why we were going and for ID. My friend only had a drivers and no other ID - he said he'd let us in, but not sure if she'd be allowed back into Canada... WHAT?!??! But there were no dogs sniffing our belongings... no guns... no mirrors looking under our car... nothing really except a hard nosed guy in a uniform trying to scare us.



Once across we drove to Bellingham - it's the outlet heaven of Washington - or so we were told. Well.... we found an outlet store place - but it wasn't anything special - found out later it was the
wrong one.
Fueled up for $30 - that felt good since it usually costs me $40+!!!

NOTE: Dairy Queen's in the US don't carry Skor Blizzards

Found some US Only stores - JC Penny's and Target... had some fun there. Bought a blow dryer. Had supper at some American sports bar - the Mac Daddy - is what we ate.

NONE of the stores or restaurants accept "INTERACT" soooo weird... must have cash or credit card. 6 hours later we headed back for home. Got across the boarder in about 2 minutes... no questions... not even to look at our ID... we must look innocent.

All in all it was a fun little outing... BUT I know for sure - I have no desire to move to the USA! I'm a Canadian girl -- ALL THE WAY!!!