Canadian Hospitality - Thunder Bay style

The challenge - How do you say thank you to a large number of Canadians who have opened their hearts and houses to give us hospitality such as we have never experienced before?

The answer - with more Canadian hospitality - Thunder Bay style!

Here are the details:
For all you true believers, i.e. Jenkoz blog followers, you will recall how lucky we think we are for arriving in this particular part of Canada. People have gone 'above and beyond' the call of duty when it comes to welcoming newly arrived Australians. We have been showered with attention, help, dinners, friendship, transport (not literally) and snow - literally.

To say thank you just didn't seem enough, even though these polite Canadians accepted such simple platitudes as gratitude. No. I wanted to REALLY show my appreciation - I wanted the whole city to know the terrific people who make up their community. How better to make it public than use public radio- so I did.
As luck would have it, Thunder Bay radio 91.5 fm CKPR, were running a free lunch competition. I decided that at the least I could share my words for public gratitude with the station in the hope that they might read it out and everybody would know. This is where Thunder Bay 'style' comes into play - not only did they read out my words of thanks, but the show hosts Danny and Laura awarded me the prize of a free lunch for 20 people!! I was gobsmacked.
Now this was no ordinary lunch with fairy bread and some cordial; this was a chef prepared buffet style restaurant bonanza.
Themed in the Olympics, it was the kind of meal that you felt guilty to start eating because it looked so beautiful. But then, as soon as you took the first bite, all thoughts of guilt were quickly replaced with, "How much can I eat without looking too piggy?"
Chef said, "You eat with your eyes too." and I couldn't agree more because the whole meal was as much a work of art as it was a feat of culinary delight. Sorry folks, there are no pictures for this posting as I don't want you dribbling on your keyboard while you oggle the spread. Take it from me (and hordes of others) - it was goooooood.

So, how to say thank you to Canadians for their hospitality? Give them Thunder Bay hospitality with the best food you can get!
For all of you unfortunates still living somewhere other than here, when you eventually manage to book a flight to here and visit - Eat at Joe's!
Joe's on Arthur was the supplier of all the good food and soon to be a regular haunt for yours truly and family. Can life get any better!?