Canada Day
This year Canada Day was at home and I still felt like we represented Canada's birthday well. The day started off with a relaxing morning where we all kind of went about things we wanted to do. There was gaming, cleaning, reading etc. Nothing too exciting. However, in the afternoon I did a fireworks Canada Day online paint session which was fun. I am super thankful that local artists are posting free online tutorials to follow. I quite enjoy them! Then we had the traditional smoked porkchop bbq dinner. Brian grew up in Atwood and this is served every year for the community, so we try to do it here too. After dinner we played online musical bingo. I think this was a hit! An online DJ played nothing but Canadian music (about a minute from each song), and then they would tell us the song and artist if we still didn't know right before going on to the next song. The whole thing was about an hour and a half with Amazon gift card prizes and more for lines, L, and full cards. Hadley even broke out the microphone and we may have had a family dance party. Brian was one number away from a full card win.
After bingo we got the tent out and set up for camping in the backyard. We enjoyed maple marshmallows roasted on the campfire. (One you have maple marshmallows there is no going back. They are superior in shape for roasting and taste SO GOOD! Easton humoured us with glow sticks taped to his body while he danced in the darkness, which was awesome! The charades were brought out, and we just enjoyed each others company in our lovely backyard. The fireflies came out, the stars were clear, fireworks were being set off in every direction and we could see them all from the comfort of our lawnchairs. I tried to photograph them but they were just too far for my iphone 11 to capture, and I was too lazy to get out the good camera, so we just enjoyed them. The weather was perfect for camping. All in all a successful Canada Day!