You may be surprised to hear that we have met a fair number of people on our trip. We have never really bothered with names, and generally only call people by where they're from. "What's up, Argentina?" "Hey Toronto, come sit with us!"
There have been some stereotypes that have developed over the weeks, and last night, after a few glasses of Heineken (it's pretty much the only beer you can get in this city), some of these came into focus.
"Toronto people are all like 'Look at me I'm so metropolitan'. You meet some people from Vancouver that are like that too, and that's really bad because they are choosing to be that way. But Toronto people just can't help it." - Heather, after 'Toronto' left to go try and talk more girls into joining our table.
"It's like sangria, but with beer!" - One of the Argentinians, on dumping peanuts in their beer.
"Hell no we're not Canadians. We're from Daytona Beach. Yeah, that's right, the land of NO ACCENTS. Everyone else in the world has accents but us." - Some girls that 'Toronto' tried to get to join us.
"That is the reason why we put Canadian flags all over our stuff." Heather, to 'Ohio' after the Daytona Beach girls left.
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Heather, I'm glad we can be criples across the globe as well. Michelle, are you now Heather's giant crutch? Keep rockin' the free world. Love your postings...will continue to enjoy them for the next couple of weeks:)
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Needless to say, Mumsy & Dadsy check daily!
Re the PITA Americans from accentless Daytona Beach:
Remember that the great Americans are really great! Its a bipolar sort of place, the US is. The Jerks are major JERKS but the gems are major GEMS.
Keep on blogging . . .
PS I wnat to go cycling in Holland so bad, I can almost taste it! I even just typed "can almost" as "canal most" - how Freudian is that???
(Or is it just bad typing?)
I love you guys. Let's take a trip to Daytona Beach.
Maybe when you guys get back I'll start calling you "Pitt Meadows" and "Abbotsford" ... You can call me "Kamloops"
see how fun comments are???
Butts & Bikes are a big reason God made Recumbent Bikes!
Ditto Wrists & necks.
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