camsa5 wrote: Cancelled our plans due to not so favorable weather. Will be going out the 22nd for sure.
I don't believe them.. Weather forcasters are no better than fortune tellers. They only seem to be accurate the moment before the prediction. If we cancelled our plans everytime the weatherman told us it was going to be a poor weekend we would have missed out on some of the nicest days last year. It's a gamble either way..
What's the occasion? I guess I'm not up on Canadian holidays. I see Victoria Day listed on my calenday, but it's the previous week.
Victoria Day was on her birthday, the 24th of May. Used to be a ditty about that:
" It's the 24th of May
The queen's birthday,
If we don't get a holiday
We'll all run away!"
Then somebody decided to make it so it always became a long weekend, and it is no longer on the 24th of May for sure. Lately, they have just been calling it the "May long weekend" because people no longer know what it is all about. Ok, Queen Victoria hasn't been seen lately, but that's no excuse!
OK, so you are talking about Victoria Day. I get that, but which weekend are you talking about? The weekend around the 18th, as would be implied by the notation printed on my calendar, of the weekend around the 24th, as would be implied by the "two-four" statements?
At this point, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you mean the weekend around the 18th, even though the 24th does fall on a weekend and the 25th seems like the logical day to have off. That would explain why the village park we're going to said that nothing was happenening that weekend. Or am I still all wrong?
I'm so confused, no wonder they've started calling it the "May long weekend!"
And I thought I knew at least something about my nearby northern neighbors, guess I'm pretty much ingnorant after all...
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Victoria Day is now the Monday before the 24th if not the 24th. Your Memorial Day seems to have the same idea for its proper day. The Civil War was long ago, so now it's the long weekend that counts it seems. So far they haven't found a way to monkey with 11 Nov, or with 1st or 4th July. We did make our Thanksgiving a Monday though. Yours being on Thursday gives you the chance to slide on Friday and make a four day weekend out if it. Better for RVing.
BFL13 wrote: Victoria Day is now the Monday before the 24th if not the 24th.
Thanks for the explanation, makes perfect sense now.
Quote: Yours being on Thursday gives you the chance to slide on Friday and make a four day weekend out if it. Better for RVing.
Yes, I always take that Friday off, even when it's not an official company holiday (some companies observe it, some don't.) But unfortunately, it's late enough in the season that we're usually winterized by then. (Or I spend that Friday finishing up the winterization process. )
We are heading to Fairmont Hot Springs, hopefully the weather will smarten up here as well!! We cancelled Mt Kidd a couple of weekends ago due to the snow/rain.............I wouldnt be suprised if they get more snow up there this weekend the way this spring has been.
Either way you all have a great weekend!!
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What's the occasion? I guess I'm not up on Canadian holidays. I see Victoria Day listed on my calenday, but it's the previous week.
Victoria Day was on her birthday, the 24th of May. Used to be a ditty about that:
" It's the 24th of May
The queen's birthday,
If we don't get a holiday
We'll all run away!"
Then somebody decided to make it so it always became a long weekend, and it is no longer on the 24th of May for sure. Lately, they have just been calling it the "May long weekend" because people no longer know what it is all about. Ok, Queen Victoria hasn't been seen lately, but that's no excuse!
OK, so you are talking about Victoria Day. I get that, but which weekend are you talking about? The weekend around the 18th, as would be implied by the notation printed on my calendar, of the weekend around the 24th, as would be implied by the "two-four" statements?
At this point, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you mean the weekend around the 18th, even though the 24th does fall on a weekend and the 25th seems like the logical day to have off. That would explain why the village park we're going to said that nothing was happenening that weekend. Or am I still all wrong?
I'm so confused, no wonder they've started calling it the "May long weekend!"
And I thought I knew at least something about my nearby northern neighbors, guess I'm pretty much ingnorant after all...
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