Yes she should! I think May 2-4 might be the biggest long weekend of our summer. She'd have a blast! We don't have anything called Bank Holidays, but we do have something similar. The first Monday in August is th 'Civic Holiday' which doesn't have to be honoured (each city's government decides if they will have it. Most do), bit mostly it's just banks and government offices that are actually closed. I think some malls do too. Everyone that has to work either gets extra pay or a bonus vacation day though. We have another one in February that's only been around for about 2 years now called Family Day and basically works out to the winter version of the same thing. I don't usually take notice of them though as I've never worked a job that closed on holidays (except Christmas Day).

I would kill to live somewhere where a bad winter was hitting zero. In our equivalent to July (which would be January) if it only went down to zero we'd think it was warm and people would be wearing shorts (seriously). That time of year we're usually around -10 to -15 not including a windchill factor. I hate it. It's summer for me now though and it was a beautiful 35 out!