July 1 is Canada Day marking their independence from Great Britain. There’s a lot of that going around. They took off in 1867. The day started with Canadians serving real maple syrup for our pancakes. The normal syrup here is some weird stuff. It was good to get the real thing. They held a ball (street) hockey tournament, strangely enough the two Canadian teams made it to the finals. The underdog won though in a stunning upset. They had their flag raising ceremony in the morning and flags were everywhere. I wore my Canada flag pin.
At night, they had an excellent party in the Gardens. They served BBQ ribs, chicken, beer, Moose Milk, Beaver Tails, and maple cookies. Beaver tails are a light pastry shaped like a beaver tail with jam. They had games like a football toss, ball hockey shoot, and something that Paul and I won at. We were a team where Paul was blindfolded and had to hold a cardboard canoe over his head and portage through cones with me giving him directions. I won a fake Swiss army watch and he won a good lock-blade knife. Not bad at all. Music was played through the speaker system, all Canadian artists.
So to answer Terry and others, I suppose it does seem we just party all the time drinking and eating and drinking. Strange but true. We do get our jobs done and fight the bad guys, but we wouldn’t last long without these distractions. We also have to watch the movies and read the books that people send. It’s just non-stop sometimes!
The real party should be on Friday for the 4th. It happens to coincide with our “day-off.” Should be fun, I’ll report out on it this weekend.
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I guess Canadians know how to party! Cousin Joel teached them. There was an old song about partying which went something like: "We had parties and banquets and banquets and parties and balls, balls, balls!" Anyway have great times whenever you can but watch out! The bad guys like to make trouble on holidays! See Yaz.
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