Day 3 - Canada Day

1st of July, every year, not matter what day it falls on, is a public holiday in Canada. And the whole country just parties. Except for those people reading the news... or working in restaurants... or... or...

Anyway, today we went over to Prince's Island in the Bow River where there were two main stages dealing out live music for most of the day. Most of it was pretty good, too... and it was free, anyway, so you can't complain too much. I even caught the sun. Everyone was sporting Canadian flags sticking out of caps, or their hair, or rucksacks... there were people just doling out these free flags everywhere. Even Mr. Gonk got one.

The first band on stage shouted out something along the lines of, "let's hear it for the best country in the world... CANADA!!!!", and there was a huge cheer. It made me wonder what would happen if someone shouted that out at a concert in England, "let's hear it for the best country in the world... ENGLAND!" They'd most likely be met with a chorus of raspberries or people tutting. Or is that just me being jaded?

After a day of live music and crap food, we came back to the hotel for a bit to freshen up, then wandered back into town for more music. But it wasn't really to our tastes, and you couldn't get in a pub anywhere to save your life, so we came back.

Just been adjusting our plans for tomorrow. We have to pick up our vehicle, and get the tickets for the Stampede, which is going to eat into our day a bit. So instead of Drumheller tomorrow, and Vulcan on Thursday, we're going to Vulcan tomorrow (we want to spend ages in the badlands and in the dinosaur museums of Drumheller). So tomorrow will be spaceship and driving arguments, woohoo!