Happy Victoria Day everybody!
Funny how it is called several different things, depending on where you live.
@prairie_girl tells us in Manitoba it's mostly called "The May Long". Here everybody pretty much still refers to it as Victoria Day. Various Commonwealth countries have versions of it (2nd Saturday in June in Great Britain, 2nd Monday in June in Australia) and it is considered QEII's "official" birthday, even though she was actually born in April.
Here the Queen's Birthday part is not such a big deal; there are no public events or any traditional way of celebrating. It's the first long weekend of the summer season though and it's party time - hence the 2-4 beer reference.
A lot of people here make their first camping foray of the year too, which is actually a really dumb thing to do. More often than not it's still freezing overnight and snow is a common occurrence. It was cold and rainy/snow showers all this past week and it's currently -2C but is supposed to smarten up just a little over the weekend. Very typical May weather.
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) heavy rain, crazy lightening, thunder, hail and just for good measure - a region wide power outage! 
