Canadian Delicacies

I brought a few (4 to be exact) chocolate bars back from Edmonton for Stephanie and Megan to try. I don't know why I only brought 4...I have a list of about 8 more that I need to remember for next time (aka mum send a package?!).

Anyway, over the last couple days we have been cutting them into thirds and sampling each one. They were a hit. Meg and Steph have their bags pack, they're ready to move. (Okay...not really. But that would be fun!) Wunderbar was the all-around favorite, but overall there wasn't a bad one. (Duh...they're from Canada)

These are the four we sampled:

The bars we still need to sample are: Mars, Caramilk, Crispy Crunch, Eat More, Crunchie (I personally hate this one, but others may not), Bounty, Big Turk...I know there are more, but I can't remember them right now. If my Northern readers have one to add to my list, leave a comment!

*Images from www.nestle.ca and www.canada.en.cadbury.com. I would also like to say that the images were much more uniform looking before I published the post. I hate figuring out images.*

16 Sleeps

until I am home....Alberta bound and on Canadian soil. I can hardly wait. My flight has been booked for a few months now, and time was a flying...but now that May has finally come the days are moving slooooowly by.

Besides the obvious family time/seeing Jordan etc. I have a list of things that need to be done. It has been 1 year...ONE YEAR since I have been home. My list includes, but is not limited to:

• Lettuce wraps @ Joey's
• California Shrimp Pizza /w Parm Dip @ Earl's 
• Chicken Salad at The Upper Crust (Kaelin- maybe this on Friday?)
• Rotisserie Roast Beef on the BBQ, stuffed potatoes and salad @ home (dad- this is your duty)
• Whyte Ave shopping and browsing
• West Edmonton Mall- need to go to the British Import Shop to get chocolate bars for Scott
• Of course, some inevitable drive by's with Kaelin. We probably should have outgrown this by now; but we haven't. No biggie.
• Stealing shoes books from mum. (It's not really stealing when she gives them to you. And deep down, she gives them to me)

Like I said, I'm not limited to just what's on this list- this is just what pops into my head. There will be more, don't worry.

Luckily I have some things to divert my attention, and to look forward to in order to pass the time. This week there is a trunk show at the store for Debbie Segal and Sarah Robertson. Debbie's jewelry is AH-MAZING and Sarah's paintings are gorgeous! The store will already be crazy busy for Mother's Day, but the show will make it even busier. It will be fun!

I can't think of what is happening next week...but I'll figure something out. Maybe I'll hit the gym so I don't need a seat belt extension on the plane.

I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!

Mourning The Loss

Today I finally registered our car in the state of Tennessee. It has taken at least the last month to get to this point. There have been people that did not believe me when I showed them what my title looked like (Heaven forbid not everything is EXACTLY the same and the US of A does it)... there have been people who have asked if Canada was overseas....and when I finally got the title (because they did not believe what I had was the title- refer to above) they wondered if it would be in Spanish, not to mention those people that told me I had to drive to the boarder to import the car. Hello Detroit!

Well...eventually I found people that could help me- or at least lead me to people that could. Thank you Mike at Sunrise Chevy, the very nice import specialist at the Memphis Port of Entry and the nice lady at the G'town DMV.

I took off the Alberta plate this morning and screwed on the Tennessee plate. It's sad. I never wanted to get to this point, but to my credit I have made it 5 years in the US with Alberta plates and have never been pulled over and questioned. Not bad. On my way to the DMV (again) this morning I was driving behind someone with an Ontario plate. May he have the same good luck I did.

Bye bye Alberta....

(photo credit: anon. person who posted this online)

 Hello Tennessee...

(photo credit: anon. person who posted this online)

Canada vs. USA

We were teaching Sunday School last week and I wished the class luck in the Olympic hockey game to be held that afternoon and told them I would be nice when they lost and had to see me again the following Sunday.

This week I made sugar cookies in the shape of Maple Leaf's for them, but it was Fast Sunday (obviously I didn't notice until we were running out the door to be on time, and chose to leave the cookies at home). I told them all about the cookies. One boy in our class, Taj, said we got lucky.

Umm, no, you got lucky in the LAST 20 SECONDS. 

He also said he almost memorized the Canadian Anthem- 

"well duh, you heard it so many times with all of our record breaking Gold Medals" I said. 

He said he was going to come over tonight and decorate our apartment with American Flags. Instead, he showed up at the door with a giant heart shaped cookie decorated like the US Flag. I knew he was coming and changed out of my pajamas and answered the door in my Oilers Jersey.

A good night. 

 

My Many Names

I just received a letter addressed to Carl Hale. Yes, Carl. And when you stop and think, well it's not so bad, at least it was just this once- and not in public, hold those thoughts. Many a voice competition would go by where I would be introduced as Carl Biggs, because my teacher would write in all-capitals on the registration form. I figured I was beyond that now that I'm not doing such things. Nope, apparently not.

I am also called "Kay" and "Terri" on a regular basis at work when I'm on the phone. C'mon people...Cari. It must be a thing with names ending in "ee" because Stephanie gets called Becky. Nobody screws up names like Megan, Scott, Kris, etc. Just another thing to add to the list when selecting baby names. It will be a hard process. (Note to my mum: that was not an announcement, just thinking ahead!)

In other news, Canada beat the USA in Men's hockey. We took Gold. On home ice. We also took home more Gold medals than any other country in Winter Olympics..EVER. But hey, who's counting? (Your congratulations are graciously accepted.) Just wanted to make sure the news reached all these USA folks- we all know how good NBC is at reporting all the facts.

To celebrate the exciting moment, I wore my Oilers jersey to work today. America is celebrating the loss by sending Canada a case of Molson Canadian Beer. I believe Terri Clark said it best when she said "I think the world needs a drink...World peace can be achieved if we all sat down for a drink".

Well folks, they are being served in Ottawa- as soon as Obama delivers.