The Shrine

Except you Canadians. To you it's just the start of the christmas season. Go see a movie.

Barret wrote:Except you Canadians. To you it's just the start of the christmas season. Go see a movie.

You Americans, always making changes where you don't need to. Use the damned "u" in the words it needs to be in and change Thanksgiving to a REAL day :-)

Have a happy thanksgiving everyone (except Sine and Seraph, who are transplanted Canadians for the week) :-)

Barret wrote:Except you Canadians. To you it's just the start of the christmas season. Go see a movie.

Actually our retardedly high commercialistic society started our Christmas season November 1st, right after Halloween.

Just had my turkey, time for a nap... damn triptaphan(sp).

I'm gonna get really drunk then work the morning after saale........wooohooooo.....3am to noon...........crazy times with pissed off obsessive sale shoppers, lines around the block to get in and beer tacos

I think I may have celebrated Thanksgiving (the Canadian version) once or twice before. It is not something my family ever considered to be important.

Canadians in general don't celebrate it though. It is just another one of those days where people eat Turkey dinners. Most years I have usually use the Thanksgiving weekend to go out on a camping trip. I didn't do it this year though (I just went to the bars a lot). I remember my last camping trip: we had hiked up about 50 kilometers to the North East and to the beach at the beginning of the weekend. Just me and my girlfriend. The first night we broke into an abandonned cottage in the woods and spend the night there. We didn't get much sleep mainly because there were signs that someone else had been living in the place too. It wasn't one that had been in use for a while; it was cheeply built, and half the windows had been put out of it.

The next night we slept under the stars, in a farmers field, it was warm and not windy. The third night we ate tostitos, some oranges, Five alive, and others stuff we had picked up at a farmers market in one of the rural villages we had passed through. We ate this in substitute for a thanksgiving dinner, and we were quite thankful for it. On our way up to a tourist village where we FINALLY found a motel at the right time to spend the night. I slept like 11-12 hours. Quite a nice adventure (far from the first, and not the last one I ever had of this nature). During the winter is a fun time to go, freezing your ass off, building a temperoary shleter in the snow; It's cool when you wake up and the inside walls are just all ice. The summer is fun as well, there are many more Inns opened up; if I were to make a law for this province, it would be that every town and village should have at least one Inn open all year around.

Basically had Thanksgiving at Medieval Times. BTW, that place is somewhat overrated, or at least not worth the $70/person it takes to get in. Yeah, the food is pretty good, and you get to call the waitresses "winches", but it's basically two hours of a poor story and bad fighting choreography. (We laughed every time one of the knights did a really bad "dismount off of his horse because of a shield hit" deal.)

SineSwiper wrote:Basically had Thanksgiving at Medieval Times. BTW, that place is somewhat overrated, or at least not worth the $70/person it takes to get in. Yeah, the food is pretty good, and you get to call the waitresses "winches", but it's basically two hours of a poor story and bad fighting choreography. (We laughed every time one of the knights did a really bad "dismount off of his horse because of a shield hit" deal.)

Hey, that probably happened quite frequently in medieval times =P

I didn't know it was a highly rated place, or that it cost 70 dollars either. Was it anything like it was on the Cable Guy though?

It was exactly like the Cable Guy!

When we sat at our table, she came up to us and said "My name is <forgothername> and Ill be your wench for the evening"

I thought I was gonna die.

Zeus was telling me that it's about $44 or so a pop, so I might have gotten ripped off by Ticketmaster.

Hmmmm, I hear it's freezing cold in Toronto right now. It's funny how I'm about 1000 kilometers North but the temperature is about 20 degrees warmer. Gotta love that Gulf stream =)

We're getting a dip down to 0 degrees over the weekend, but then the temperature is supposed to get back up to between 13 and 15 next week. Right now it is 12 degrees (equivilent to about 55 degrees F). Toronto is like -6 (or at least in Waterloo).