Canada is Cool!

borrowed from http://lavendercottagegardening.blogspot.com/2010/06/happy-canada-day.html

I don't just mean temperature wise, Canada is just cool in many different ways:

1)  They introduced me to gravy + cheese + french fries = poutine

2)  They are an Arctic nation (ok, that is temperature related, or at least latitude dependent, though China would like to think that it is also an Arctic nation [do an internet search on China, icebreaker, research, arctic.... and you will see what I am talking about])

3)  They are pretty good at brewing and distilling (e.g., even their cheap beer is pretty good)

4)  They are pretty darn good at that game they invented (hockey, not skiiing, for those of you who were wondering......GO CANUCKS!!!)

5)  They have lots of moose and polar bear and beavers (fish, not so much, unless you count those mushy fleshed atlantic salmon they farm in the pacific)

6)  Lots of them speak a language quite similar to us here down south, or for us here in the Detroit region [or Alaska] up north

7)  Their national anthem has a much better melody than ours.  OK, I know I grew up mostly in Baltimore County, and that is kind of like heretical when you are from the land of Francis Scott Key, but really, just listen to the two anthems side by side, and see what you think!

8)  I cannot think of anything that is cool about curling, other than the playing surface....

9)  They have more than one official national language, which is pretty neat!

10)  They understand that embargoes don't normally work.  It has only been about 50 years, so maybe we have not given that experiment enough time yet!