Canada Border Crossing

We are just forty or fifty miles from the Canadian Border

and getting a Canada stamp on my passport

has been high on my bucket list.

When we crossed into Canada while on Glacier's Red Bus Tour,

the border agent said,

"everybody hold up your passport"

and he let us pass through.

No stamp.

But a few days earlier,

we had gone to the nearest border crossing
to get our passports stamped

and visit the closest Canadian town

We were not allowed to cross,

because we didn't have a permission letter

from the kids' daddy.

No stamp.

Now this really struck the 11 year old boy funny bone,

and he sent a text to his best bud back in Texas:

"We got booted out of Canada"

When they got home,

Was the mom ever surprised to learn

that friends and acquaintances

all knew

that they had been

Booted out of Canada!