North Dakota and Minessota, USA

On Friday afternoon 14 Nov 2008 in Winnipeg, hubby surprised me by saying "Come, let's go - i wanna bring u somewhere really interesting". I said "huh?? ( i was still busy browsing baby cloths at the store). Then hubby said "hehehe let's go to USA. Me "what!!" Hubby "the border crossing is not far from here. only 100 kms away". Me "OK!! Let's go".

So that afternoon around 4.30pm, we left Winnipeg to the USA-Canada border crossing. On the way, we stop by at this site:



Found 1 cache just at the bottom of the stick!

Closer to the border, we did another geocaching in a very, very small town. Hubby saw an elderly couple taking out stuff from their car and hubby offered to help. Few minutes later, hubby came back with a plate of 'ring tea cake'. He bought it for $6, as part of the fund raising project by the elderly group in that town.



We reached the border around 5.30pm, the US Custom officer was wandering what are we going to do in North Dakota in November??? Asked us to go to the custom shed for inspection - walla they found nothing illegal LOL!!





We drove a big triangle (as follow the highway) in North Dakota, crossed to Minnesota and back to North Dakota again in less than 30 minutes LOL...



Guess what we can see in North Dakota & Minnesota (2 states of USA) parts closer to Manitoba,Canada in November??? Mind me, that evening the temperature was way below the freezing degree...i think it was -11 degree!

Well, nothing much i can see at nite, so we settle at a very nice hotel in Grand Forks town, ND - 100 km away from the border. That hotel is really good, just nect to the highway.

And in the morning, on the way back to Canada, these what i can see in Grand Forks town and along the way:

A sport center in the town named after a Red-Indian leader:


A vegetable factory - we can smell potato chips when passing by this site LOL:


Then, except some building and houses...just plain fields all the way to Canada!!!







I kept asking hubby what are these North Dakota & Minnesota people doing in this very bare land & fields. Hubby said these people mostly farmers & they usually owns hundreds acres of farm land! Wow - i'm not surprise - as far as you can see, there is no hills, no mountains, just fields & sky!

I finally fell asleep while hubby was driving - i woke up only few kms away from the border and here we come again Manitoba!!!



After seeing part of Canada & little bit of USA - i truly believe indeed "Beautiful British Columbia"!!!