As I mentioned before, our kids have year round school. That means our summer did not begin until 4th of July weekend. As soon as school was out we hit the road for Washington to kick off our short summer with Derek's parents
Its tradition to get some donuts at Krispy Kreme while we are in Washington. Although now we have one very close, the five years we spent in Kansas made us appreciate having a variety of stores close by and so this really was a special treat for our kids . . .
Derek and I took off for a couple days to Vancouver Canada without the kids. It was great! We were within walking distance of Stanely Park (1000 acres right downtown, dwarfs Central Park in NYC--but you get the idea), and because we have continued running Derek said, "let's get up tomorrow morning and run around the seawall that is part of Stanley Park." Did Derek check on the mileage? No. Was this suppose to be a vacation? Yes. How many weeks since we ran a marathon? Oh abooot (for you Canandians) 3. We kept running and running. 8+miles later I said forget it and we veered off the sea wall trail and headed inland to the city. Once we reached the street we walked back to our hotel.
While we were without kids, we took advantage and attended a session at the newly constructed and dedicated
Vancouver Temple. It was beautiful!
Do I look bored?
Does Derek?
That is because of this.
Wow. Border Control.
Getting into Canada we waited for maybe a total of 30 minutes.
We waited all that time to be asked:
1. what is your business in Canada? vacation.
2. do you have any fire arms or weapons? No.
3. do you have any drugs? No.
I will now be peering in your windows and looking in the trunk. (I assume for the aforementioned items)
To get back into the US (on a Wednesday morning) we waited for 3+ hours.
Really.
We waited all that time to be asked:
1. are you bringing anything back from Canada that you purchased there. No.
2. are you sure? Yes; well, we do have this soda we are drinking.
3. what about produce? any produce? No.
4. are you sure? Yes.
please release your trunk and I will be peering in your windows. (looking for produce)
thanks have a nice trip.
Now I don't want to damage the agriculture market in the US, but even if we did have produce we were driving our car not our semi (oh wait we don't have a semi) so how much produce could we possibly be bringing with us?? Apparently enough to effect the local farmers.
Nice.
Oh Canada!
Thanks for a great kick off to our brief summer. We love Washington and visiting with the Vances!
Its tradition to get some donuts at Krispy Kreme while we are in Washington. Although now we have one very close, the five years we spent in Kansas made us appreciate having a variety of stores close by and so this really was a special treat for our kids . . .
Derek and I took off for a couple days to Vancouver Canada without the kids. It was great! We were within walking distance of Stanely Park (1000 acres right downtown, dwarfs Central Park in NYC--but you get the idea), and because we have continued running Derek said, "let's get up tomorrow morning and run around the seawall that is part of Stanley Park." Did Derek check on the mileage? No. Was this suppose to be a vacation? Yes. How many weeks since we ran a marathon? Oh abooot (for you Canandians) 3. We kept running and running. 8+miles later I said forget it and we veered off the sea wall trail and headed inland to the city. Once we reached the street we walked back to our hotel.
While we were without kids, we took advantage and attended a session at the newly constructed and dedicated Vancouver Temple. It was beautiful!
Do I look bored?
Does Derek?
That is because of this.
Thanks for a great kick off to our brief summer. We love Washington and visiting with the Vances! 
