Your best returning to Canada moment

[observor 69]

As tommorrow is Canada Day I thought it would be fitting to share "Your best returning to Canada moment."
For me it was crossing the Port Huron/Sarnia border in 1999 after three years in Houston, Texas.
US Customs, paramilitary look and attitude  Canada customs....How's it going',eh!  :nod:
Checking into Sarnia hotel and listening to a group of touring Quebec youth in a singalong. Next morning beautiful day, August, in Sarnia and going to ...you guessed it Tim Horton's for toasted sesame seed bagel with cream cheese and a coffee.
Oh and driving into Toronto and seeing salt corrosion on metal railings along the 401, something you never see it in Houston.

Have a great Canada Day !

 

[Strike]

As tommorrow is Canada Day I thought it would be fitting to share "Your best returning to Canada moment."
For me it was crossing the Port Huron/Sarnia border in 1999 after three years in Houston, Texas.
US Customs, paramilitary look and attitude  Canada customs....How's it going',eh!  :nod:
Checking into Sarnia hotel and listening to a group of touring Quebec youth in a singalong. Next morning beautiful day, August, in Sarnia and going to ...you guessed it Tim Horton's for toasted sesame seed bagel with cream cheese and a coffee.
Oh and driving into Toronto and seeing salt corrosion on metal railings along the 401, something you never see it in Houston.

Have a great Canada Day !

You missed one thing -- chips under the bridge!

 

[OldSolduer]

Returning from Croatia in 93. I was never so happy to leave a place in all my life.

 

[gaspasser]

Flying into Ottawa after the Gulf War and seeing my wife and son waiting for me.  I walked right past all the dignitaries only there to shake hands, and into my wife's arms and kissed my son (1 year old) who barely knew me.  The Canadian Field Hospital left Petawawa not knowing when we were coming home....or if!      I was only gone for four months, but they were the longest 4 months of my career.
I've been away twice since and nothing comes close to that moment in time.    :'(


Oldsoldier: my condolences on your loss.  No greater sadness.....    :yellow:   

 

[OldSolduer]

Thank you BYT.....its the military family as well as my own that keeps me going.

 

[Otis]

My best returning to Canada moment took a month and a half to complete.

Sent home early for post-deployment leave so I could meet the ship and do the duty watch while everyone else got thier leave.

I didn't return straight to Victoria, I went to Toronto where I met my 'finacee' ( I had told her I was going to marry her via e-mail while I was away, I don't know if she took it seriously or not) I stayed with her in Toronto for the month, she came back to Victoria with me, and when the ship returned it delivered her engagement ring (which I promptly handed to her and said, "Well, you already said yes, so you might as well wear this now") Good moment ... once in a lifetime "proposal" ... good homecoming!

 

[Jammer]

Our chalk picked up a CF-18 escort over Quebec and they took us all the way to Trenton coming home from Afg in spring '07.
I'll never forget that.

 

[Teflon]

Every time for me

 

[Kat Stevens]

Coming home from four years in Germany, 1992.  Pick up our car in Ottawa, and head off to the (then) in laws in London.  Stop at a restaurant about 11:45 for lunch, I decide to have my first Canajan beer in 4 years.  "Sorry sir, you can't have a beer til 12:00."  Welcome home.

 

[NCRCrow]

OP APOLLO 2001-2002-after 7 months of insanity/boredom/uncertainty on board HMCS IROQUOIS, we were finally heading home after leaving Majorca.

The C&PO's Mess Committee had bought all kinds of nice food (cheese/meats) etc

The CO comes on the PIPE, announcing we are back in Canadian waters..cheers all around . An hour later we were in a Sea State 6 storm and everybody went to bed.

The North Atlantic had missed us and welcomed us home!

Proud to be a Canadian and have served my country for 22 yrs.

Happy Canada Day!

 

[1feral1]

I have been back to Canada 5 times in almost 15 years.

Each time is good, as I enjoy seeing the Rockies off Vancouver from the air as you come in, and the patch-work quilt like farm lands near Regina as one flys in.

What is always good is meeting family and friends who really never seem to age.

Regards,

OWDU

 

[old fart]

I think mine just happened or is ongoing...

I have just arrived back in Canada (Pearson-Toronto) after wrapping up a year with the US Forces in the sandbox on Op ENDURING FREEDOM.....

Its good to be be back..or will be when I hit Oromocto...

HAPPY CANADA DAY one and all....those over the waters and on this end...

Old fart...."I am Canadian"