We had visitors this Canada Day, Our friends Sarah and Seth came down from Beaumont to stay with us for a couple of days and joined us for our second Canmore Canada Day Parade. A whole bunch of the neighbours filled the back of Jess and Phil's truck with chairs and they very kindly made the 6am trip down to Main Street to bag us a spot. I was pretty happy that this year we managed to get set up on the shady side of the street as it turned out to be a bit of a scorcher.
The kids were super excited and just like last year the parade delivered! Marching bands galore, clowns, horses, cowboys, skaters and skiers and most exciting of all.....plenty of people throwing candy into the crowd.
After all of us getting soaked last year by all the paraders with water squirters Seb was out for revenge and taking no chances he came armed with a pretty heavy duty water squirter of his own this year. He got some pretty good shots in when the fire truck went by!
It was obviously Silas' first Canada Day and considering the heat, drums, bagpipes and horn blowing he was an absolute angel! In fact he seemed to love all the hustle and bustle.
After the parade we headed to Centennial Park to see the various other festivities but mostly just for the bouncy castle. There was a battle of the marching bands and it was pretty cool to watch. Those guys are impressive! I don't know how they get so many people to move and play together with such synchronization and all of it whilst wearing a ton of dark coloured polyester on a hot, hot day!
Sethy and Bel got to go on the little'uns bouncy castle while I lined up with Seb for the bigger kids castle. I swear we lined up for about 45 minutes for just a five minute bounce! Seb seemed to think it was worth it at least.
We didn't make it out for the fireworks this year, it doesn't even get dusky until after 10pm and we had 4 very tired out kiddies on our hands by then. We did hear a few bangs at about 10.35pm while we were sat enjoying a nice cold cider in the evening breeze :)
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