My Best Canada Day

My best Canada Day was in Japan. Kuni and I decided to host a big Canada day party in Sendai. Kuni, having spent nearly an entire year in Canada, has many fond memories during his stay there. That, me and our other roomie, Olympia, being Canadian, we figure that it would be really cool if we put a big Canada day party together where the 3 of us would call in our friends and celebrate together. What transpired was awesome.

After some planning, we had decided on hosting a big BBQ in a park by a river. We supplied the drinks and our guests would bring their own food to grill and we even had fireworks too boot too! Me, Kuni and Olympia all came out in "Canadian t-shirts," ironically all borrowed from Kuni! Oddly I didn't bring any Canadian t-shirts, just my Roots back pack.

All in all, about 50 people came out to the event. I even managed to invite another Canadian I met randomly in Sendai out (and she brought in Maple syrup cookies!). We belted out O'Canada, some Japanese friends belted out the Japanese anthem and some of us even also belted out the American anthem too (well their day is on July 4th!).

The party did have a few hitches though. It poured in the evening. Fortunately there was a bridge near by that we relocated to and had a great time. It stopped later at night and we had an unexpected guest-- a firefly (amazingly beautiful... and it glowed green!).

Unfortunately, most of my friends didn't have cars or BBQ equipment on a large scale. But , fortunately Kuni did. Kuni, awesome job on the organization! Ps. Sorry about forgetting the aluminum wire and gum tape :P

We celebreated until midnight, packed up the tables, booze, equipment and garbage. A cop patrol car came by and was wondering what we were doing. They took my ID just incase we left garbage behind or something and were left unhassled.

Pictures below:

Friends and I
Nothing wrong with a few pretty faces!
Everyone at the grill
Here's the grill, without flash!
Everyone's all smiles!
Need a sparkly smoke?
Fireworks bonanza!
Kuni with a "Canada Eh!" shirt!

Hope you guys had a great Canada Day back home!