"Happy to life!"
It is wonderful to know that while the world burns both literally (Australia) and figuratively (Iran) that important heads of state can still carve out some much needed “me time.” Politicians… they’re just like us! And Canada’s own Prime Minister, the universally declared “Sexiest Leader of a Nation in both the Developed and Non Categories” Justin Trudeau just returned from a much needed surf vacation down to sunny Costa Rica.
The Ontario native is no “first timer” as it were. Nine-some months ago, he traveled across his Great White North to surf Tofino. At the time, Canadian press excoriated their beloved first son because, “The family trip, which was expected to have emitted more carbon than an average Canadian does in a year, is once again being investigated by the Lobbying Commissioner.”

Canadians… they’re just like us!
In any case, the Costa Rica surf adventure was, by all accounts, happy but let’s not speculate. Let’s go directly to The Costa Rica News for slippahs-on-the-ground reportage:
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau left Costa Rican territory on Saturday after having enjoyed the waves in the Central Pacific.
Trudeau said he was “fascinated” with the country and said he will return, said the pilot Everardo Carmona, owner of the CarmonAir Charter line and responsible for returning the president to the Juan Santamaría International Airport (AIJS) in Alajuela.
He came to surf, happy of life. To spend the end of the year with his family (his wife Sophie Grégoire, and their children Xavier, Ella-Grace, and Hadrien) and what he was sharing with them, “said the aviator in a telephone conversation with The Observer.
He was fascinated with the country. That he returns is what he says, “he added.”
Happy to life.
Costa Ricans… they’re just like us!
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Commies don’t surf.
Chas stopped plagiarizing Hunter Thompson and Brett Easton Ellis years ago. Catch up man!!!!
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I got distracted by the ad showing you how to close a chip bag without a clip.
My oldest son is currently on a surf trip in Costa Rica and today he sent me a picture of a trash can full of used toilet paper.
Shitcanned!
No he didn’t.
I’m trying to upload the photo.
I have failed.
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are you infatuated with that photograph? someone is, it makes appearances often.
I find it the fairest and most balanced statement for many articles here in the BG peanut gallery.
I think it might be my spirit animal.
I might consider getting one as a support animal and insist it gets a free seat on the airplane with me.
Like Paris Hiltons arm dog? Emotional support animal. !
Surely our Prime Minister beats him?
Bonus points with being a Woman?
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Oooooh Justin…. there’s a new sheriff in town!
I’m thinking that all elections could benefit from a swimwear section. Justin Trudeau and Jacinda would smash BoJo, Smoko and the Trump.
That is not a real likeness…
I’d have to agree.
Isn’t he one of Mick jaggers kids?
Wonder if he dropped in and gave the locals the good ole Salmon Arm Salute
Deadset how’s the style on him.
Maybe post politics he can move back down there, open a juice cleansing shack, have a second marriage to a Swedish yogi, and resist the urge to start smoking cocaine
Props to the guy for naming his son Hadrien, that’s siiiiiiiiiick. Better than Caligula or Volusianus.
While Hadrien is a Good Surfer’s name for a bloke who likes long Scottish Walls ( Le Mur de Hadrien in French ) his Grandmother ( while she was not making wax …. just kidding… wrong Madame T. ) was dancing at Studio 54 and denying rumors of being romantically involved with Castro, so it is possible that Caligula may have been more apt ?
I personally am more of a St Francis Xavier fan .Xavier was possibly the first bloke / Jesuit on a strike mission to walk on water in Sumatra and Java around 1545, and may have glanced Xavier’s right and left , long before Lance , before heading off to convert the Japanese a few years later ? Or was that Todd Kline …. he is big in Japan …..
St Francis. Bruce’s or Seal Point? Quality or quantity?
Urchin you will have to play the role of the Cape Crusader of St Francis and enlighten me …… sadly I have never made the pilgrimage .
If you catch Bruce’s on a decent day, you’ll make life long memories.
Contrary to what they tell you in the Endless Summer, it’s rare to get it working.
Two aussies moved in next door to me. Pretty sure one the kids is named Tallulah….or was it Caligula?
Tallulah is a great Jamiroquai song.
They used to be called Bazza and Shazza ….Tallulah might be an improvement ? Maybe not ….
A message to the US that he’s keen to build a wall ?