Dispatches from Dufferin Street

Taking in the view

Originally uploaded by karchibald1

My passport arrived last week, so the boys and I headed to Alexandria Bay for lunch to celebrate the last day of holidays and the fact that the three of us are now able to cross international borders.

We had a great time – took under four hours to go back and forth. We had lunch and bought a ridiculous amount of fudge from a little shop in A Bay, and stopped to climb the skydeck on Hill Island on the way home. The boys each have an American dollar bill to remember the trip by and were pretty intrigued by the whole border crossing, new country thing. As we got onto Interstate 81, Leo asked, “Are the people really FANCY in America?” (I can now report that no, we didn’t see any fancy people whatsoever in our three-hour visit.)