Canada Day was a whir of walking and food and crowds and general fun having. We experienced the first crowd we ever have here in our relatively small city and got to partake of some food truck bliss. K saw a guy with a water powered jet pack and I got to see a fireworks display over the harbour. Magical.
Breakfast at our local British-style coffee/deli.
A charming local bookstore.
The crush of people. P.S. If you'd like to show some Canadian spirit the thing to do is wear a flag like a cap, stylish and a statement :)
The local artists, a second stage and a whole circle of local food vendors. K scored a print and we both ate some delicious foods.
They had a huge stage going all day with local dancers, musical groups etc.
You can apparently book this as an experience, in case anyone needs a present idea for K:)
Delicious Tacos
Pulled Pork Poutine from The Pig. Thank goodness for all the walking ya'll.
Dinner from a Filipino food truck. Sooo good and K loved it as well.
The Parliament all lit up.
All in all, a great and tiring day and pretty stunning way to get oriented to this awesome country.
The following few days we have mainly been trying to get our life here together, which is pretty complicated. Don't even get me started on how it is much more difficult to get a cellphone than it is to get an SIN here. However, we still get to spend our days walking around in the perfect weather, enjoying the sunshine and seeing more of our town.
Forgive the fact that I'm posting more photos of the park near us but it is still amazing that we walked through this again and found more fountains and alcoves that we hadn't seen before.
Turtles basking in the sun.
Ate lunch near this pond covered in lily pads and surrounded by adorable ducks and dragonflies.
Some more scenes from the beach near our place.
We also stopped by and set up some internet (yay!) and K got to see how his print will look in our new place. Yay #2 for the fact that it is currently getting painted:)
