Canada Day in Costa Rica
Today we celebrated Canada Day, prematurely in Costa Rica with the Sowrey clan. The Canadian Club of Costa Rica put on an event right in our neighborhood. The club they chose was so close we were able to walk to it. That’s quite nice in this area as you usually need a car to get around most places. At the club we were greeted by many smiling Canadians, all wearing their red and white. Our tickets for the event included admission to the club, including use of all it’s facilities (pools, tennis, miniature golf, foozeball, etc), lunch, cake and entry into the door prizes raffle.
Highlights included:
- cooling off with a dip in the pool.
- cooling off with a bubble gum flavored slush that came with (I think) powdered milk, condensed milk and a funky after taste.
- listening to the Canadian Anthem
- cake, mmm
- cleaning up on the door prizes
Originally we weren’t even planning on staying long enough for the door prize draws, but due to the cake being cut later than expected we lucked out. Somehow, all of us managed to win a prize. Megan took home a small baby toy, Geoff won a night at the Adventure Inn, Alex won a salon gift certificate, Jenn won dinner for 2 in a nice restaurant in Escazu and I won a gift certificate to the Tandori Palace in Santa Ana! My win is really fortunate as we were already planning on going there in the near future, now we just have another reason to go.
To top off our Canada Day festivities we even rented a Canadian movie, One Week, courtesy of the iTunes. All told it was a really good day packed with all things Canadian and hanging out a nice club with lots of facilities is really making me want to get a membership.
hobojoe on June 30th, 2009
gigantic canada cake. yum! tastes like…canada.