Here I am with my friends Ceiba, Montana and Kenya (can you guess where they were born??)
Mom's friends Salome and Anna
Newlyweds Jeff and Anna Goh
Jeremy, Dad and Kaiser (drinking Canada Dry)
Mom put this silly hat on me but she must have forgotten that I don't like hats because I quickly jerked it off. It did have some cool bells on it that I liked to play with as long as it wasn't on my head!
We played lots of fun games while we were there. Mom volunteered Dad to play one where he had to read this speech and it was so funny!"Hey, I'm not a lumberjack, or a fur trader....I don't live in an igloo or eat blubber, or own a dogsled....and I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada, although I'm certain they're really really nice. I have a Prime Minister, not a president. I speak English and French, not American. And I pronounce it 'about', not 'a boot'. I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack. I believe in peace keeping, not policing, diversity, not assimilation, and that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal. A toque is a hat, a chesterfield is a couch, and it is pronounced 'zed' not 'zee', 'zed' !!!! Canada is the second largest landmass! The first nation of hockey and the best part of North America! My name is Joe!! And I am Canadian!!!"
He didn't win but we were still proud of him.
After all the excitement I was a little tuckered out so Dad and I took a nap together. I can't wait for my American Thanksgiving!
1 comment:
glad you got to celebrate your first canadian thanksgiving with all of us! i have yet to put my pictures up from thanksgiving lunch... turns out most of them are of you! will you be at the fall festival? i have something for your mom (you're invited too of course.)
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