Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!!!
i'm writing from the back of a jeep from which i can see a herd of sleeping lions to the left, elephants splashing in the river to the right and giraffes munching on the treetops straight ahead. this is my african safari. okay, so i'm actually in canada, toronto to be exact. which is pretty much the same thing as being on an african safari.
the occasion is canadian thanksgiving (you can't really go wrong with two thanksgivings in one year!) today we went to thanksgiving dinner at the home of a professional chef. SO incredible! (almost on par with an african safari...). but we lucked out because apparently thanksgiving here isn't as big of a deal as in the states. the meal is often potluck (e.g. meatballs and potato salad and coleslaw) and people usually spend it at home instead of making it into a family reunion. it may just be canada but this certainly feels like a different world. i even bought a pack of Pete Jackson cigarettes (since there are no american cigarettes available here). they're shorter than smokes we have back home, have impossible packaging requiring a rocket scientist to successfully use (fortunately, we were in luck since i happen to be such a rocket scientist) and are plastered by the surgeon general with pictures of people on ventilators and brains with stroke damage. do cigarettes cause health issues? yes, absolutely true. but still so bizarre. see below.
by the way, there really is an african safari here in toronto. it seems a very unlikely place for lions and elephants and giraffes to live, but it really exists. check out the website at
http://www.lionsafari.com/index2.asp
the occasion is canadian thanksgiving (you can't really go wrong with two thanksgivings in one year!) today we went to thanksgiving dinner at the home of a professional chef. SO incredible! (almost on par with an african safari...). but we lucked out because apparently thanksgiving here isn't as big of a deal as in the states. the meal is often potluck (e.g. meatballs and potato salad and coleslaw) and people usually spend it at home instead of making it into a family reunion. it may just be canada but this certainly feels like a different world. i even bought a pack of Pete Jackson cigarettes (since there are no american cigarettes available here). they're shorter than smokes we have back home, have impossible packaging requiring a rocket scientist to successfully use (fortunately, we were in luck since i happen to be such a rocket scientist) and are plastered by the surgeon general with pictures of people on ventilators and brains with stroke damage. do cigarettes cause health issues? yes, absolutely true. but still so bizarre. see below.
by the way, there really is an african safari here in toronto. it seems a very unlikely place for lions and elephants and giraffes to live, but it really exists. check out the website at
http://www.lionsafari.com/index2.asp
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