As if that is going to happen any time soon.

Happy 140th Birthday Canada. As you can see we are celabrating Canada Day with some new friends we met, that are from Kitimat. BC. For those of you that are not sure where that is look way up. Look way way up on a BC map and you will see it there. James, Joanne, Colin, Madison and Robin. James is down here for radiation treatments on the throat and jaw. In typical Canadian fashion he suffers in silence and tries to enjoy the day with the rest of us.

Last year we celebrated Canada Day in Sudbury Ontario with our family there. We were at 3 different summer cottages and had a great time with all. Who knows where we will be next Canada Day. Hello Sudbury. Happy Canada Day!!!!

It has been awhile since I have posted something on our blog. After our 40,000km trip across Canada and through the United States, I went back to work and have not had much time to write. I have had a lot of time to think about that trip and what it meant to us. We are such a small ountry and after you travel through the US one realizes how small we really are. The state of California has approx. 5 millon more people in it than all of Canada. Yet we have a medical system that needs working on but we all have it when needed. You can travel from mile zero in Victoria to mile zero in Newfoundland at Cape Spear, up to the oldest settlement in N. America at St. Anthony"s NFLD, on pavement( the road does need a little work though). Canadians can take pride in the fact that Gander NFLD, a town of ten thousand residents, took in and sheltered 6900 American citizens during 9/11. These are people that do not have a lot but gave it all to those stranded. One American from New York, wrote a letter that is posted in the Gander Museum. " I flew out of New York to Paris, France and on my way home I landed in heaven. That pretty well sums it up.

Leslie and I became fiercly Canadian after travelling across Canada and even more so after travelling through the US. I can't think of any other nation I would have next door but I AM GLAD I AM CANADIAN. For a small country we do very well and do it so well. We kick ass. If we can just get some good people honest people to run the country. The Guess Who a Canadian R&R group from Winnepeg, Manitoba wrote a song in the late 60's called American Woman. The sentiment to that song is even more resounding today than it was back then.

Happy Birthday Canada. To our many friends in the US. Happy 4th of July.