Sep 132014
 

Hi All

We have finally finished our first day. Mum made it to Peach Arch Park with no issues and met us exactly at 3:30 as planned. F helped us transfer my things from our car to Mum’s and with a quick hug, we were off.

When we had first arrived at the park there was a reported hour wait for crossing the border, but when we headed towards customs it was quite a bit quieter.

After a quick conversation with Customs about our trip and how fun that sounded, we were heading down the I-5. Mount Baker was absolutely beautiful as we drove through Skagit County, and we were quite pleased to see the Mount Vernon bridge rebuilt after last year’s collapse. We ran into a small amount of traffic coming into Everett, but that quickly dissipated and before we knew it, we were at the hotel.

Dinner was at Goldberg’s Deli, which was featured on Food Paradise. We started with the potato latkes as an appy and then Mum got the Godfather sandwich and I got a Corned Beef & Pastrami Reuben. Mum finished half her sandwich and I finished about a third, plus we have half the latkes leftover (they gave us a side instead of the appy size so we had 6 of them). Definitely a great start to the Food Network trip, but a very long first day.

I will leave you now with pics of our dinner.

Talk to you soon.

L

 

Thickness of the Reuben

Corned Beef & Pastrami ReubenThe Godfather

Sep 132014
 
Peace Arch Park to Everett, WA

Peace Arch Park to Everett, WA

 

Mum and I will be meeting up at the Canadian parking lot of Peace Arch Park and heading across the border around 4 in the afternoon. Since we have such a late start (I have a wedding to go to @ Peace Arch Park that I wouldn’t miss for the world), we are only driving about 164 km.

We will be having dinner (with leftovers for tomorrow’s picnic lunch) at Goldberg’s Deli in Bellevue. This is our first Food Network stop, as seen on Food Paradise.

Talk to you soon.

 

L