New Pictures

Here are some recent pictures.


The biggest darn potato I've ever purchased... maybe ever seen!



More of the mutant potato



This sucker took up the whole bottom of my biggest pot!



Abbie (Soodsma) Broekhuis and I decided to road trip to Canada in a quest to purchase caffeine free Mountain Dew. I didn't think the boarder patrol would let us in after Abbie asked the guy if he had to ask all of these questions or if he is just a curious person. Then, after he asked what we were shopping for and I said, 'clothes and things' Abbie chimed in with, 'Can we tell you something and you not get us in trouble?' (Oh gosh Abbie... please just don't say whatever you're about to say. One way or another we're going to get arrested) She informed the man that I am pregnant and that we needed to get into Canada to buy a bunch of Caffeine Free Mountain Dew. I think the boarder patrol man let us through just to get rid of us.



We had NO idea where to actually go in Vancouver so we stopped at a Starbucks and asked an employee what we should do with our afternoon. After saying, 'Ooh! You could go to the park! But it's raining... but the flowers would still be pretty! But they're probably dead...' (haha!) she drew us a GREAT map of how to get to downtown Vancouver and how to get to two different big malls. It was a life saver :)



We almost immediately identified ourselves as Americans by asking for the 'Restroom'... then realized when we saw the sign that we obviously should have asked for the 'Washroom' to blend in. Silly us!



At one of the malls we went to we found 'The REAL Canadian Superstore'. Having no idea what this place was all about we were very excited to experience it. And very excited to have our picture taken in front of this wall.



After having shopped for a while we decided it was time to get our Mountain Dew and head home. Abbie was very proud to have found a cart and figured out how to 'pay' for it using a Canadian coin (that we would get back when we returned the cart).



Abbie ready to retrieve our "prize"



We found the Mountain Dew! Good thing they had enough stocked on the shelves!



This lady thought we were nuts. We had several people give us funny looks and a few actually asked us about it. Abbie was quick to tell them that I'm pregnant and love Mountain Dew so we drove all the way from Seattle to get Caffeine Free Mountain Dew because we don't have that in America etc etc etc (if you know Abbie). :)



And we're leaving The REAL Canadian Superstore, "prize" in hand



Our purchases and the mall:
2 Sweatshirts for Abbie to wear when she's teaching PE
2 'Canadian looking' hats that we could NOT leave Canada without!
10 12 Packs of Caffeine Free Mountain Dew



A close up of our sweet hats




Abbie and I, with our hats, in front of the Peace Arch on the way home