Turkey Day
We were on our way out to San Carlos when we saw a truck with a big whale bone/rib tied onto the box. I said to Roy that I should have a list somewhere on the blog of "things you would never see in Canada", this for sure would belong on that list. I imagine that it was on its way to decorate someones yard.
We picked up our friends and went to the restaurant where we were going to have our turkey dinner. All 4 of us are Canadians but who can resist a turkey dinner with all the fixings, besides it never hurts to take the time to stop and reflect on the good things in our lives. Roy and I haven't had turkey for about 2½ yrs. so it really tasted good to us. The restaurant was not too busy and we chatted with our friends and the owner and his wife when she could take time out from the kitchen. A large group of people entered the restaurant and heard part of our conversation about something in Canada and asked where we were from. When we told them, it turned out that one of the ladies had been born and raised in our small town of 1400 people in Alberta. Go figure, we even knew some of the same people. What a small world! We laughed and teased the owner that all of his customers at that time were Canadian, so perhaps he should cook us a turkey next year in October on our Thanksgiving. He admitted that there are a lot of Canadians in San Carlos and that yes, they would cook us a turkey dinner next year if we would just tell him when the holiday is. I don't think it will happen though as most of the snowbirds do not arrive from there until after the holiday.
We enjoyed our dinner and the visiting and made plans to pick our friends up to go to the Shrimp Festival on Saturday.
After we returned home later we noticed the parrot that had made an appearance a few weeks ago; but this time there were 2 of them. Not sure where they are coming from or staying; but they better find somewhere warmer to stay for the winter as it will be too cold for them here. It goes down to 10 C./50 F. some nights during the winter and I think that this is much too cold for them.
Hope you all enjoyed the holiday if you celebrated it.
