Canada Day, or Where's Willie?

Oh, the best laid plans. On July 1 it was Canada Day so in the evening I'd arranged to go with Carolyn and two friends to see the first night of the annual Free Will Shakespeare Festival which runs through July. They were doing an open air performance of a Comedy of Errors in Hawrelak Park, which started at 8pm. We were then going on to see the Canada Day Fireworks which started about 11pm in downtown Edmonton.

We were queueing to get into the amphitheatre at Hawrelak Park when we were told that the show had been cancelled that night as one of the actors had inconsiderately broken his hand earlier that day. That was disappointing in itself as there was no other opportunity for Carolyn to see it, However, it also meant we had three hours to kill before the fireworks. A walk around the lake at Hawrelak Park took care of about half an hour, and then a cup of tea in Starbucks another half hour. Then we wandered to the Legislature grounds where we could watch the fireworks and killed the last couple of hours chatting and people watching. The fireworks were excellent and worth the wait. However, it then took us an hour to get out of the car park to get home.

Richard in the meantime, wandered down all by himself to see the St Albert fireworks and said they were very good, so we'll probably stay closer to home next year.