God bless America

We are in America and really enjoying the beautiful place that I call home. My parents have a big American flag on their house and this month there is a little German one below it.

Going to the grocery store is an indescribable experience for me. I had some sort of weird emotional reaction to simply gazing at all the foods I used to know. The stores are so modern, so new smelling, and the food, omgosh, I remember in particular the granola bar section just went on and on and on. Then there are the samples. I wandered around eating what tasty snacks they lay out. Then there are the checkers who do EVERYTHING for you, including, get this ...FREE GROCERY BAGS. Although there is something new, they have signs encouraging people to bring their own canvas bags now. I thanked the checker profusely for just doing her job, she put the groceries in bags FOR ME.

My sister said if we want my man to have a real American experience, take him to Costco on the day before the 4th of July. So we did, just for fun. It was FUN!

I also love the confidence I have in situations here, I just understand everyone and there is no challenge involved in doing simple things here.

I keep driving by restaurants I love, and stopping the car and ordering food. We are both eating way too much but that will stop when we leave here. My man is enjoying Dairy Queen Blizzards and I am eating Mexican as often as possible.


We are geocaching every day, and on these trips stopping by old pastures where Baasha lived his earliest days.

The nice people who read this blog told me to relax and not worry about him, so that is what I am doing.

OK now to go see that new Star Trek FINALLY. See ya!