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"He came in, it wasn't planned, it was very exciting," manager Thierry Bammier said. Mr. Bammier was the person behind the long counter at the bakery who stepped up to serve the president. "I'm French, and he heard my accent and said, hey, where do you come from? Do you love Canada? And I told him yes, and I come from the French Riviera."
Mr. Bammier went on to explain that Obama asked to buy some cookies for his daughters and chose the shortbread maple leaf cookies with the red icing and white piping that spelled out Canada. "He wanted me to take his money, but I said, no, they're on the house. He laughed and everybody was laughing, the secret service, the cameramen."
The bakery sold out of the chosen Obama cookie 15 minutes after the president left, Mr. Bammier said: "I think we sold 120 of those cookies. It's so great for the store
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Ms. Milien followed the agent around the corner to the Byward Market building. Mr. Obama walked up and introduced himself.
"He was really nice, asked how I was, how my day was," Ms. Milien said.
She then handed him the BeaverTail and he asked what was on it.
"It was an ObamaTail, something that we came up with a while ago when we found out he was coming to town," Ms. Milien explained. "He asked what was on it and I told him it was a cinnamon sugar tail with whipped cream, chocolate sauce and a maple butter.
"It was overwhelming, I'm a big fan," Ms. Milien exclaimed. "To have the first black president in front of you, talking to you, it's just an amazing experience."
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"I love this country," Obama said during a Parliament Hill news conference – a statement that received significant play in most American news accounts of the visit.
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rest of the pics here on his website:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photogall...ng-with-canada/
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Palm Trees > Pine Trees , Sand > Snow
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