Oh Canada!

Our freinds Joe and Barbara are leaving early Monday, so a little get-together

happened this evening. Joe is on the right in the above photo, wearing an orange shirt

and singing with a Canadian guitarist. A Canadian onlooker is on the left.

Everyone is wearing a cowboy hat.

Barb, Joe's wife and Mexican tour guide extroidinaire.

The audience, part shown here, was made up largely of
Canadians. Note that all of them are wearing cowboy hats
and clutching drinks. They tell me liquor is very expensive in Canada,
so they need to drink while in Texas.



The Canadian in the orange T shirt (wearing a cowboy hat)
is holding a spray bottle filled with what is supposedly a potion
given to him by an Indian (from a Canadian tribe). This potion will repel
evil spirits but encourage good spirits to hang around.
The Canadian in the white cowboy hat, named Borjn, is explaning all this to us
four Americans (no cowboy hats).

John (on the extreme left), Candy and Jake are learning about
potions, evil spirits etc. etc., and realizing we haven't had nearly enough to drink.
Clearly we need cowboy hats.

Joe really is a very good singer. We assumed he'd sang with

a band sometime in his past but he denies it.

We hate to see them leave next week but plan to

visit them in Wisconsin this summer.

We are considering buying cowboy hats as we plan to

go to Canada also, and want to look like natives.