HAPPY VICTORIA DAY TO EVERYONE!!
For those of us in the Great White North we celebrate Victoria Day today. It also marks the first long weekend of the summer (which in Canada last about 6 weeks). The weekend is typically cold and wet but that doesn't stop Canadians from planting their backyard gardens or opening up their summer cottages. Oh yes a we light fireworks too. I mean how else would you know it was a holiday?
Victoria Day is celebrated the last Monday before May 24 or on May 24 if falls on a Monday. The important thing is to get a long weekend out it. The holiday is colloquially known as May Two-Four in most parts of Canada; a double entrendre that refers both to the date on which the holiday usually falls (24 May) and the Canadian slang for a case of 24 beers (a "two-four"), a drink popular during the long weekend.
Now you may ask why Canadians celebrate Victoria Day. It's to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday. Now she hasn't been Queen for over 100 years but what politician is going to yank a holiday over a small technicality like that. In fact I'd been happy to celebrate more of the monarchs' birthdays if it meant a day off work. You know there were 8 King Edwards and 6 Georges.
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