Celebrating Both Countries

Being an American and now living in Canada, I get the neat opportunity to celebrate both countries each July! Canada Day takes place on July 1st and is the celebration of Canada becoming a country. This year, a group of us from church went down to the Charlottetown Waterfront to watch the fireworks. We arrived before it got dark and enjoyed fellowshipping together over a game of Phase 10. It's always great to watch fireworks!

Though I'm usually not in the US on July the 4th, I still like to celebrate my home country's day of independence in some way. Seeing that my new friends, Kendall and Freda, are American and would not be home on July 4th, we decided to 'host' a 4th of July cook-out for the Wednesday night prayer group. In Canada, you don't hear the term 'cook-out'. It's mainly just a BBQ, but not what us Southerners would consider BBQ. BBQ here is just hot dogs/hamburgers cooked on the grill. Us gals wanted to do more! We had a menu of BBQ chicken, burgers, baked beans, potato salad, chips, sweet iced tea, pecan pies, and a US flag cake, with some things provided by others. We enjoyed planning the evening and everyone seemed to have a great time of fellowship and food.
I thank God for the honor I have to celebrate two wonderful countries and how neat to sing both countries' anthems in one night, as we did on July 4th!