Happy Birthday, Bronwyn!
Today my niece, Bronwyn who lives in Toronto, turns sixteen. A major milestone as now Canadian laws permit Bronwyn to drive. When I turned sixteen, this was a huge deal for me and most of my friends. We all had our plans of how and when we’d learn to drive. I got my license about nine months after I turned sixteen. Having just been back to Canada last week – for a day in Toronto and a day in Vancouver – I explained to the kids that Bronwyn was turning sixteen. Sebastian was quite curious, connecting the dots that sixteen was only seven years away for him. Tantalising Tess is very good about calling family back in Canada – including gently reminding me – on these types of occasions but with busy lives, ski season and what not there was no answer at Bronwyn’s home. We decided instead to send Bronwyn a birthday video, combining personal greetings with Hong Kong Disney Land’s “Let It Snow” parade, taped from a recent trip to Disney. We posted the video on Bronwyn’s Facebook Wall but it’s also appended below for easy reference. Viewers will notice that Hong Kong Disney parades look very familiar, but also very different.
