INVASION OF CANADA!!!

Like a supermarket tabloid come to reality. I witnessed the invasion of Calgary, Alberta Canada tonight. Side note, I never know whether I'm supposed to put another comma between Alberta and Canada, but ANYHOW... I arrive at my hotel to find probably 80 Japanese people all with their little wheeled hard-case airplane bags (saw a couple toyota and mitsubishi brand...good mileage I hear). Nothing quite like touring halfway across the world during vacation to see a late-summer Canada!

This place is strange, though. Very very flat, and its 9PM right now and the sun is just starting to THINK about setting. Still very light outside and its rather nice. It rained all day today and I had to bust out my "slicker." Good thing I threw it in at the last minute, eh? Get it? Get it? I'm acting canadianese. Some lady who asked me like 500 questions at the immigration office stamped my passport today. It was so cool! I'm an official world traveler now. Also, all the signs here are in French and English, but its really hilarious, 'cause almost NONE of these people up here can speak a lick of French. I get the vibe that the Calgarians want nothing to do with anything French.

I ate ocean Sunfish for supper and hit on a whole bunch of really cute waitresses....um....ok, so maybe I just ate Sunfish. Had a fine glass of flavorless white wine with my super-chocolatey little cake thingy dessert. I also read this neat article on the plane magazine that said Japanese sake is made from rice and its brewed like a beer (rice beer?) but the alcohol content is about 12% or something like wine. I used to think it was some super-hard liquor or something. I read about all of the good places to go buy sake...in Japan. You should have been there.