Guess what…..

Bermuda!

No work tomorrow! Welcome to Bermuda’s three-day weekend. Why? Because we’ve got heroes to celebrate for the third year! Yep in 2007 Bermuda decided it needed a heroes’ day (no capes needed) so here we are in June with a three-day weekend. Bring on the tights and saving small children!

Ok maybe not but Bermuda’s hero is definitely the ultimate female of firsts – Dame Lois Browne Evans. She was Bermuda’s first female lawyer, the first black woman elected to Parliament, the first female Attorney General and first leader of the Opposition.

She also became the first female Opposition leader in the Commonwealth.

Anyway…it’s a day-off. A day to recover from Father’s Day (don’t forget you’ve got a busy night with Do It for Daddy cruises! Don’t even get me started on how wrong that is).

Did you forget it was Father’s Day? Really? Not to worry. There are plenty of excuses. i.e. “Oh didn’t you know dad I thought we would be cosmopolitan and celebrate Argentina’s (hint it’s….)”

“Of course I didn’t forget I was making you feel like a dad again….” Ok well if all else fails these are the other countries and when they celebrate their dads.

Argentina – the third Sunday in June

Australia – the first Sunday in September

Belgium – St. Joseph’s Day & the second Sunday in June

Brazil – the second Sunday in August

Bulgaria – June 20

Canada – the third Sunday in June

Chile – the third Sunday in June

Denmark – the second Sunday in November

Finland – the second Sunday in November

France – the third Sunday in June

Germany – Ascension Thursday (40 days after Easter)

Japan – the third Sunday in June

Lithuania – the first Sunday in June

Netherlands – the third Sunday in June

New Zealand – the first Sunday in September

Norway – the second Sunday in November

Portugal – St. Joseph’s Day March 19

Spain – St. Joseph’s Day March 19

Sweden – the second Sunday in November

Taiwan – August 8 ( in the Mandarin dialect of the Chinese language which many people speak in Taiwan, the numbers for this date – 8/8 – make the sound “ba ba“…and that is the same sound as the word father!)

Thailand – December 5 (This is the birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej)

United Kingdom – the third Sunday in June

United States – the third Sunday in June

Who knows how any of these countries pick these days or how we do but there you go. Now you can buy that plan ticket for dad and celebrate father’s day in one of these far-flung places.

And for tomorrow – the day-off if you are a 9 to fiver who works Monday to Friday. What’s the plan? I mean besides celebrating the life of Dame Lois Browne Evans, obviously…..

I would say for most Bermudians it will be a chance to head to the water on their boats. Or via the pink sand on our beaches. What’re your plans? BBQs?

Me? I have a friend visiting by cruise! The same chica who met me in Buenos Aires. I love international friendships!

But whatever your poison for the day….have fun…and keep trucking!