No breakfast, Markets and Jazz

Carolyn's first day here was a Saturday, so in time honoured tradition, we decided to take her for a slap up Canadian breakfast of eggs, bacon and pancakes at Socrates, our local diner. There's always a bit of a queue, but we were finally next in line to sit down, when the lights all went out. Huge power cut, also taking out some of the traffic lights on the adjacent road. So we got seated, and had a cup of coffee, but electricity was not forthcoming. So we decided to save it for another day and instead were forced to have large danish pastries from our local bakery instead.

We spent the morning wandering round St Albert Farmer's Market, buying up lots of goodies there, and then had a relaxing afternoon at home. In the evening, we went to a jazz concert in Edmonton. It was the start of the anual Jazz Festival and for the first time this year, they put on a free open air concert in one of the parks. We got there in time for the last set which was a guy called Alfie Zapacosta and the Edmonton Jazz Orchestra. They were excellent, playing big band type stuff, and we had a wonderful time sitting in our deck chairs, eating smoked salmon sandwiches and raspberries, listening to the great music. I hope they do it again next year.

















After all that we had drinks over the road with John and Sonja. A great day.