Just like Caillou

In case you are just tuning into this blog, Jack loves Caillou. It's a PBS cartoon about a 4 year old boy, which is actually produced in Canada. As we prepared for our trip to Canada, Stuart told Jack about all of the things we would do that were "just like Caillou," things Jack (and apparently Stuart) had watched on various episodes.

We looked at Caillou's house. OK, it was a house that resembled the one in the cartoon, but Jack bought it. In fact, Jack pointed out the neighbor's house must be Mr. Hinkle's home (also from the cartoon.)

He really wanted to go to a maple forest to help make maple candy. We couldn't do that, but we did take him to a farmer's market that sold maple candy. Good enough for Jack!

The only problem we had was strawberry picking. Stuart promised him we could pick strawberries. Jack asked to do it every day. We put him off each day, telling him we would do it tomorrow. Toward the end of our trip, we realized we better do it soon, only to find out there really wasn't any place to do it since we arrived during the wrong time of year. We convinced Jack to settle for buying some at a roadside stand. He was happy. He did not, however, eat any of the strawberries. For all of the talk and excitement, he only licked them.