Life in Canada, Part Three

So while I've been lying around all day, I kept thinking, "Really? Are those all the differences that we've noticed up here compared to down there? There must be more."

Here are a few that I thought of:

1) Not only are the graham crackers in the cookie aisle rather than the cracker aisle, there is very little in the entire grocery store when it comes to Mexican food! I'd never thought about it until now, but Americans eat a lot of Mexican food, and not only in the places that have many people from Mexico residing there. Anyways, we do have plenty of choice when it comes to Asian food!

2) The funniest pronunciation we've come across is for the word decal. We say decal, you know DE rhyming with ME and CAL rhyming with GAL. Well, Canadians say decal as if rhyming it with Jekyll of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Weird. It's the one word someone has said that I've not understood.

3) There are a lot of gates around these parts. Nice houses that have property also have gates. Maybe not a fence, but a gate.

4) The funniest thing is BCers and snow on their yards. They don't like snow on their yards. We've seen many people shovel snow off their yards! It snowed on Wednesday morning and when we returned from school/work that afternoon, our neighbor's yard was sporting green grass while her neighbors' lawns were still pure white. There was also a very straight line dividing the yards. The "missing" snow was on the road in front of her house.