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Sunday, January 22, 2017

Canada Day!

We've decided that once a week we're going to have a day dedicated to a certain country, where we eat meals from that country and watch a movie from that country (or a good movie we want them to see anyway that takes place in that country). Before we got married Rachel was heavy into international cinema, while I was a bit of an experimentalist foodie, and now our kids are old enough that we can enjoy these interests of ours with them. Hopefully this won't be something that sounds fun but dithers out after a few weeks. The rules are 1) you can't repeat the same country twice, and 2) we go in order from youngest to oldest on deciding which country we'll do. In our experience, whenever we give the kids an option it exponentially increases the fun that they derive from the activity.

So this week our youngest (3) wanted to do the "leaf flag country." We had a lunch of pancakes with real maple syrup and a few slices of Canadian Bacon from the Butcher's shop.

Our first weekly (hopefully) international day.  Celebrating the "Leaf Flag Country" as our youngest calls it.  Canadian bacon and real maple syrup for lunch.🇨🇦

For dinner we found one food truck in Waco that served Poutine, the national dish of Canada: fries, cheese curds, and gravy (with mushrooms and beef in ours). It tastes a lot better than it sounds. All washed down with Canada Dry Ginger Ale (Rachel's favorite, which according to our brief Wikipedia research was in fact started in Canada).



Having poutine at the one place that serves it in Waco.  Finishing our Canada day watching Anne of Green Gables tonight.  #ocanada🇨🇦#notstrangebrew


At night we finished it off with another of Rachel's favorites--the first episode of the Anne of Green Gables 1985 Canadian miniseries. With all boys Rachel wants them to get at least some exposure to girlish things.
















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