Canada Day Fun
Last weekend was the Canada Day long weekend. On Canada Day (Friday) me, Nadu, and her cousins went to see the fireworks. They were pretty great, we got a nice spot on the hill overlooking downtown Edmonton. It is the 100th year of Alberta being a province in Canada, so I think they made this year's fireworks extra good :)Then on Saturday I went camping with my friends. We went to a place called Hay Lakes, which is also known as 'The Middle of Nowhere'. We had a great time drinking beer, playing football, drinking beer, singing around the campfire....oh yeah, and we had a few beers.One somewhat funny thing happened as a few of us started to run out of beer. One of my friends remembered that there was a sign on the town's beer store that said 'If you need service after hours, call this number:'. Well, it was about 10:00PM, so we went to see if somebody would really come and help us out. We walked about 3 km to the town from our campsite, and phoned the number. We had a good laugh when my buddy called the number - 'Umm...yeah, hi...we need some beer...can you ummm...come open the store?' 2 seconds after he called, this lady pops out from the door next to the beer store, which scares the hell out of us :p She was so nice, selling us beer way after the store closed. That just goes to show how nice small town folk are :)Now it's Monday, back at work, and my whole body is aching from playing football in the sun - everything from my neck-up is sun burnt, and everything from the neck-down is in extreme pain from football. It's all worth it though, eh?