Happy Birthday Canada

well, congratualtions canada on your birthday.

canada day is certainly an experience.

people everywhere, from all over. wearing crazy costumes -lots of red and white. i dont know haw many girls i saw in tiny red tops and tiny white shorts. i saw 6 girls spell out canada in white letters on their red t-shirts. so many people wearing flags in one fashion or another -as a cape or a boob tube. there were crazy hats and stickers and temporary tattoos and facepainting and tshirts and big flags and little flags. i walked down rideau st and it was pretty crazy. this street has 4 or 5 lanes in each direction. it was just full of people, and street performers and people selling buttons and flags and stickers and water and ice cream and hot dogs and poutine.

after that i went to hang at the parliament pub and waited for lesley (for a long time...) . we had a few drinks then went home for a while, met back up with the gang at janakis apartment and headed out again at 9. the fireworks started at around 10.30.

when we got back to the pub, joey said i had missed out on a 'flag run'. he had this huge flag, like 10 feet long, and traditionaly they run up the street with it. so when we got kicked off our table for the dj to use it, we went on another flag run.

it was quite an experience. everyone you pass starts screaming and whooping and yeehawing, and they run underneath and they grab at it and take pictures and generally get really really excited.

we ended up on the other side of parliament, by the locks, and stayed there to watch the fireworks. well, me and joey and laura did, the others went off with the flag.

the fireworks were fireworks. pretty. after japan, im a little fireworked out.

at around 11, it started to rain -pretty heavily. i walked home in a garbage bag. then sat with my new roomies and watched the lightening from our 21st floor view.....