Calendar Girl Blog: May Two Four
For those of you who do not live in the "true north strong and freezing", we Canadians are in party mode this weekend.
Even though summers official start is more than a month away, this weekend, fondly referred to as THE MAY TWO FOUR, is often thought of as the first long weekend of our sunny, green, buggy season.
Officially, the 24th of May proper is the birthdate of Queen Victoria, born in 1819 and Queen of England and the Commonwealth in 1837 when she was 18. (You go girl.)
Now a days, most people have no idea of the Queen connection. Rather, we Canucks being the beer drinkers we are, believe the 2-4 part refers to the size of a box of suds. Twenty four bottles of beer is a fave sized purchase in much of our land. According to The Beer Store ( I kid you not), this first 3 day weekend is one their busiest.
And lest you think it's just a drinking holiday, I must tell you that we also set off fireworks. Yes....imagine....drunk people with explosives. And you thought we Canadians were all a nice passive bunch of polite folk.
If you owned a Breast of Canada Calendar, you would know this. Then, if so inspired, you could host your own Two Four party, invite your friends over, say Eh! to each other and blow some stuff up.
Such fun.
Calendar Girl
Even though summers official start is more than a month away, this weekend, fondly referred to as THE MAY TWO FOUR, is often thought of as the first long weekend of our sunny, green, buggy season.
Officially, the 24th of May proper is the birthdate of Queen Victoria, born in 1819 and Queen of England and the Commonwealth in 1837 when she was 18. (You go girl.)
Now a days, most people have no idea of the Queen connection. Rather, we Canucks being the beer drinkers we are, believe the 2-4 part refers to the size of a box of suds. Twenty four bottles of beer is a fave sized purchase in much of our land. According to The Beer Store ( I kid you not), this first 3 day weekend is one their busiest.
And lest you think it's just a drinking holiday, I must tell you that we also set off fireworks. Yes....imagine....drunk people with explosives. And you thought we Canadians were all a nice passive bunch of polite folk.
If you owned a Breast of Canada Calendar, you would know this. Then, if so inspired, you could host your own Two Four party, invite your friends over, say Eh! to each other and blow some stuff up.
Such fun.
Calendar Girl
posted by Sue Richards at 11:45 AM
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