I am especially proud to be a CANADIAN tonight. Maybe its the thrill that hits the crowd, when we watch the Canadian Snow Bird Demonstration Team perform in White Rock. Or maybe it's just the noise of the jets. Canadians may be quietly patriotic, but we love our country. And we really love our snowbirds. Tonight they are flying for Child http://www.child.ca/ A free show to raise awareness about childhood intestinal and liver disease. 
We are watching a 40 minute aerial ballet, given by some of Canada's top pilots.
They fly all over North America http://www.snowbirds.dnd.ca/site/airshows/schedule_e.asp .
giving over 60 shows per year.
The jets come out of no where, suddenly roaring overhead, the loud noise always a little behind, as they break the sound barrier.
They dance in the sky, meet and fling themselves apart. Disappear, only to roar overhead from behind us. They leave smoke trails in the shape of hearts. And we love them. Did I mention that they are Canadian?
After they are gone, there is a silence in the air, a ringing in our ears.
We start to walk back home, stopping to look at a gorgeous rose, perfect in its hot pink beauty.
A older woman pauses beside us, and says "my mother planted that rose years ago, she lived here in this apartment, and started all these roses from cuttings she stuck in the ground, now I live here, and look after her roses."
With a little wistfulness and a lot of pride in her voice she says, "she was a amazing gardener, and she could grow anything."
Me too I am proud to be Canadian.... wasn't aware they did that as a money raising event....and when you see the pictures you have no idea how closely they fly and how very dangerous it is..... Their moms must have their fingers crossed for their "babies"....
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