Canada Day

For Canada Day, July 1st - the commemoration of the forming of the country - the Germans, some other people and I went to Ottawa, the centre of the country's celebrations. Parliament Hill was the main focus with thousands of people on the lawn and the street around watching the performances on the stage. Flags everywhere.

At night there was a fireworks display so David, Arne and I went across the river (into Quebec province) to be able to watch and take pictures with the Houses of Parliament in as well. They lasted around 15 minutes and were quite nice though the fact that 2 went off a good half hour before the rest kind of ruined the effect.
Coming back across the river into Ottawa, and every pub or club had a massive line up.


The weather was pretty hot and we had a brief thunderstorm.


We stayed in University of Ottawa residences so of course had an early morning fire alarm, 6am. Saturday was spent in the war museum which was quite interesting even though it exagerated Canada's influence in the turnout of all the wars they were involved in.


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