Canada Day

As usual, Canada Day was a blast.

Fishnet had a yard sale to help finance their scholarship fund so I spent some time working there in the morning. Missed the opening ceremnonies as a consequence but Wayne said the speeches (for the most part) weren't too long-winded. Wayne appeared with some strawberry shortcake from the IODE sale - an annual tradition - one has to love days which start with dessert.

There were games in the park for the kids and the firehall had lovely crafts, assorted fundraisers and the firemen's BBQ - great sausages. I also had one of Peter's sausages at The Town Market (purely for comparison purposes of course).

Suitably dressed for parade watching

The parades had the theme "Year of the Lobster" and were as usual very entertaining. Cindy and Sherm watched from our place as usual - we were pelted with candy by those we knew on the floats. It seems to me the floats are improving a little each year - my theory is that the creative people at the pharmacy have such great floats, others are trying to compete.

We had dinner at the White Gull, listening to the Heavy Water set at 5:00, then Wayne and Tim went over to the South Wharf to watch the greased pole contest. There was a dance in the park from 8:00PM to 11:00PM with the fireworks at about 9:50 - watched from our kitchen window - it was clear and no breeze this year so the show was lovely. I keep wondering how a small town can afford 1/2 hour of fireworks - maybe Quebec doesn't get all the Canada Day funding anymore.