Canada Day

L to R: Mark, Greg, Julia, Dave, Scott, Mike

photo by Grant Johnson

July 1st is Canada Day - Canada’s birthday. It’s a national holiday and a summer highlight for most Canadians. So what happens when you are a Canadian who is living overseas? Well, you have to make your own party and that’s just what we did yesterday. In fine tradition we started the evening off with a game of hockey down at the rink, Canadian born players vs. The World. We had a great game and not really surprisingly we did rather well as a team! Not sure what the final score was, the last I heard was 10-3 after that we stopped counting. In doing our best to keep it Canadian through and through we had a few beers on the bench and the quality of play deteriorated proportional to that. Extra points go to Dave who managed to put together a passable bottle of Molson Canadian Beer. No big deal you say? Well as you can’t get Canadian beer here, Dave got his brother to scan a label from a beer back in Canada, email him the image, print off 24 of them, soak the labels off of 24 Speight’s and then glue the ‘Molson’ labels on. Now that is commitment! After the game we headed into town to a Canada Day party at one of the local pubs – pizza and cheap Crown Royal filled the rest of the evening. Despite the hangover today, it has to go down as one of my better Canada Day’s ever – even if I was 13,000KM from Canada...

Happy Canada Day!