So in the interest of full disclosure I am Canadian, I love Canada, I grew up in Canada and Canada will always be home to me but that is not why I love Canadians.

While at dinner at L’Osteria del fonno, we ran into an older couple from Abbotsford, BC. The lady noticed my Canadian Olympic red mitts and struck up a conversation with us about the Olympics. She and her husband had just spent a week in San Francisco and were leaving the next morning. We asked them about what they did and if they had any suggestions about where to go. They started talking about visiting different places and biking across the Golden Gate Bridge. They suddenly whipped out these coupon books and gave them to us. The coupons were essentially 9 day bus passes for any public transit in the city, free tickets to the Academy of Science, 15% off coupons for Bloomingdale’s and other stuff.

They were so kind and generous to us and even though we’ve never met and well probably never meet again, the fact we were Canadian was enough to bond us. They embody the reasons why I love Canadians