To the Mother Land!

Perhaps it was the expensive crappy beer.  Or the expensive litres of gasoline.  Or the fact we are American thru and thru...we were ready to come home.

The signs before the Peach Arch said that the wait was 2 hours.  Luckily, it was more like 45 minutes.  Zipped right in, didn't have to pay any duties on the ice wine either.  Mike did let out a queal as soon as we were waived thru the border. 

There's no place like home!

We decided to do a little putting around on Whidbey Island since we were in the neck of the woods.  It was pretty rainy but still nice.  We took drove into Coupeville where we were married, and stopped in at the Knead and Feed for a late lunch.  What a cute place!!  The best homemade breads and soups.  You get a numbered old wooden spoon so they know where to bring your food.  They also had the best smelling cinnamon sticky buns, but we passed on that.

After Coupeville, we drove down the island and boarded the Clinton-Mulkteio ferry.  Once we landed in Mulkteio, we drove to the Edmonds-Kingston ferry.  There was no way we were going to get on the boat with our car with the after work / holiday weekend traffic, so we parked our car about 10 blocks from the dock.  We parked next to a church and across from the police station, so we felt comfortable that either the baby Jebus or Johnny Law would be looking after our beloved Subaru!  We just barely made the 4:30 sailing and met our good friends, the Walkers on the other side in Kingston.

We pretty much went straight to their favorite watering hole, the Hood Canal Brewery.  They must've known how much Mike was hankerin for a real IPA.  We stayed for several pints--too busy drinkin to snap any pics sorry!  We then headed back to Casa de Walker.  Such a cute house tucked nicely into a sleepy lush green street!  And we finally got to meet the Bear dog!!!

After a great couple of bowls of some homemade crock pot chili, some vintage pinball and great convo, we called it a night around midnight!  A late one for all of us early birds!

Thanks for hosting us, Chris and Carissa!!!  It was great!!