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Canada is beautiful. Too cold though. Us tender foots went north to Canada late March one time. It was spring here in VA, sunny, flowers etc etc. We got to Niagara falls and were shocked to find it still frozen. We had brought coats, but not hats or mittens, no snow boots, just little tennis shoes, any my poor brothers had a hole in it!. It snowed two feet! We went shopping that day. I now shudder to think of how much it cost my parents to outfit all four of us in winter gear that day. It was probably a pretty penny.


We were not gun people when I was young. My dad had an ancient (civil war) rifle and a shotty, but not much else. Montreal was weird, just weird. Ottowa was nice. Loved the capital. It was really interesting going to the historical forts and reading history of the war of 1812 from the other viewpoint.

The most funny thing that happened while I was there was someone thought my dad (27 years older than me) was married to me. Probably because I was a daddy's girl and was holding his hand. I was 14 at the time and horrified, but of course now I just laugh and laugh.

chasfm11 wrote:

misterlarry wrote:Makes me sad and ashamed to admit that I'm Canadian by birth. Thank God I'm a Texan now!

Outside of Toronto, I have nothing but good interactions with the Canadians that I met. I don't judge the citizens of our country by the conduct of some of our TSA agents and don't think the attitudes of some of the Canadian border patrol represent the population either.

I will admit to some heated discussions with my Canadian co-workers when the Dallas Stars were playing better than they are today. Hockey is a serious item there and I happened to arrive a day after the Flames had been given a thrashing by Dallas. It wasn't pretty.

Citizens of a country are very very rarely anything like the bureaucratic donkeys in public office and in places of power. I would never step foot in Saudi Arabia....but I have known wonderful people from that country.