Canada Day Festivities

Jennifer had to work on Canada Day. So I was on my own for the morning's festivities which started off with a rubber duck race. For some reason the duck race took place in a little, stagnant drainage ditch. So we had 100 rubber ducks pretty much not going anywhere until the Drayton fire department fired a hose into the ditch. But alas my ducky got stuck on a reed.

After the race it was off to admire the antique tractors. Yes there were tractors dating back all the way to 1956! Then came the local arm wrestling competition of which I did not partake.

After all that fun I decided to check out the "exhibit" center. There were booths for quilts, vegetables, what to do in a power outage, and my favorite, Alpacas! They are a smaller, friendlier, less ugly version of a llama.

Later that day when Jenn got off work we went down for some BBQ'd burgers and fries and homemade strawberry pie. We were worried the fireworks might not happen as there was some light rain but it was a spectacular display considering the rural surroundings. Unfortunately my pictures don't do them justice. And that was Canada Day in a nutshell.

Oh and I made guacamole that weekend too. Killed our second and last blender while doing so. Apparently the avacadoes weren't quite ripe enough. Wasn't great. C'est la vie.