Shrove Tuesday, pancake day! I love pancakes and today is the perfect excuse to enjoy them. I remember being a child and getting up early on Easter Sunday to attend a sunrise service. We used to trek to the top a big hill in town, where in winter we would tobbagon, but at Easter, the congregation would climb the hill at seven in the morning and have an Easter service atop the hill, our songs ringing out in the early morning light. Afterwards, we would walk back to the church and in the church basement have a pancake breakfast, complete with pancakes, syrup, sausages, juice, toast and coffee. It was a great time and I remember going back time and again for more lukewarm pancakes served in great silver chafing dishes on the buffet tables, syrup poured from plastic jugs, and orange juice from urns. It was a great morning where you could eat as much as you wanted and not a single adult told you to mind your manners or told you that you had had enough. Well, tonight I stuffed myself with pancakes again, drowning them in real maple syrup and sliced banana washed down with a glass of cold milk. Delicious. Just the way to start my night before sitting down to write more reflections and to figure out just what I have left to complete before this version is complete. I could almost feel sad that this part of the journey is coming to an end but have to remind myself that more adventures are to come!
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