Canada Day

Abi and I celebrated Canada Day by attending the local festivities hosted by the University of Waterloo. There were a lot of childrens activities and many of them free, except the dozen inflatable bouncy castles, slides, etc which were $3 a turn! Yowza. Good think Abi's scared of such things so far. She did get to make a bracelet with UV pony beads that turn colour in the sunlight. And she sampled ice cream made with "science" at one of the science booths. (I never did catch what exactly they were doing, but I guessed from the 'smoke' they were using dry ice somehow.) She also saw her friends Maxwell and Simon and was happy to see Chris and Akio (who she kept reminding me later about having seen).
We headed home for dinner to see Robin who'd been stuck at work. Turns out necessarily so as the team he just trained in Mexico was short-staffed due to a massive flooding in Monterray.
Abi and I headed out again in the evening for the 10pm fireworks. Met up with other friends and watched from a distance - although every possible viewing point, including where we were, was packed with people! Abi was not particularly impressed by the display. She was more interested in playing Ring Around the Rosey. She is accustomed to the sound of fireworks around here and is used to ignoring them. I had been warned that getting home after the fireworks is ridiculously slow, which is why we went to a further location. Even so, I knew it would still be near impossible to get directly home, so I opted to go to the NEXT major street and that was a wise choice. Almost no traffic all the way home. It was worth the slight detour!

Time to kick the kiddo out of bed. Alarm clock was ignored by her. (Mommy's girl)