Happy Canada Day!

[fajrdrako]

After feeling miserable for a good part of the day, I got better. Much better.

maaseru came home, and we (meaning maaboroshi and John) had pizza for supper, and we played a game of Scrabble - my suggestion. Part of the fun was making fun of the pseudo-words included in the Scrabble dictionary, words like 'jetlike', 'uniquest', and 'mm'. There are no linguistic depths to which players will not stoop to make points.

You know how, when you get a migraine, you lose your vision neurologically to a jagged-light visual effect? I got that during the Scrabble game, making it often difficult to see the tiles - but, surprisingly, it marked the end of my migraine, not the beginning. These things are so bizarre! It's so much easy to feel cheerful without pain. I won the game, being pretty much neck and neck with maaboroshi until the last turn, when I put SPRINTS on a triple- word square.

When the fireworks started on Parliament Hill, we went out on maaseru's balcony to watch. Beautiful! With many heart-shaped and spiral fireworks - I called them Pictish - I do love fireworks. At one point a bat flew by, looking confused by the lights and noise. But how can you really tell when a bat is confused?

It was uncharacteristically cold today. Usually Canada Day is hot; this was mostly jacket-wearing weather, and I watched the fireworks with a blanket wrapped around me.

Canada has existed for 140 years. It's been 150 years since Ottawa was founded. So far so good!

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Fireworks are such fun! Where do they have the actual show in your parts? Is it a city thing? Or State? Living in Ottawa - and not to far from Parliament Hill - I sort of get this bonus fee show that everyone else has to go downtown for, or get it on television, which in the case of fireworks, just isn't the same. How do Americans do it?

Yeah, the poor bat, we don't usually have so much going on in the sky at night around here. Sound and light show for him!

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

It's city where I come from, we have the big Detroit fireworks which you either go downtown on the river for or watch on tv (or as I did one year, climb to the top of the Science and Engineering building at my old university - you can see Detroit from there looking south :)). Otherwise, every suburban city has their own show, different days leading up to the fourth.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It sounds like fun! I think the only fireworks I've seen in the States were at Disney World, and they were very impressive.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Yes the Disney ones are pretty impressive. :)