Ah, you lucky, lucky Canadians. You've just celebrated one of the best holiday weekends of the year. It's now pretty much summer, you've aired out the cabin and months of warm weather, long sunny evenings and days at the lake stretch before you. Le Sigh.
In Australia, the Queen's birthday is celebrated on the second Monday in June and it is, appropriately, called the Queen's Birthday Weekend. Oddly enough, it is also supposed to mark the start of Australia's ski season. However, Australians don't celebrate any one Queen's birthday in particular as we do on Victoria Day in Canada.
So, in honour of good ol' QV herself, I'd like to name my top five list of things to do on May Long Weekend.
1. Taking that first shivering, numbing, painful dip in the lake which may or may not have ice hanging about the shore. Spend the rest of the day trying to regain feelings in extremities and pestering friends about the odds of toe amputation due to hypothermia/frostbite.
2. Burning your first weenie of the summer to blisters, while you try to remember where you put the buns. Sinking feeling in pit of stomach as you realize buns are on the kitchen counter back home, and the sole convenience store located fifteen miles down the road is closed for the evening.
3. Comparing this year's weekend snowfall to the many other snowfalls that have ruined May Long Weekends in your lifetime, your parents' lifetimes, your friends' lifetimes and your friends' parents' lifetimes. Bonus points for hail/snow, snow/rain, snow/slush, freezing rain, tornadoes or avalanches.
4. Taking the canoe out for the first paddle after having cleared a winter's worth of leaves, dead bugs, spiders and dirt. Somehow managing to miss the biggest spider of them all which choses to crawl up your arm while you're in the middle of the lake, causing you to drop the paddle which is quickly blown out of your reach.
5. Vowing next year you won't need your winter coat for the best weekend of summer.
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