Jazz Festival Continued & Canada Day

The second weekend of the Jazz festival was Canada Day.

Most of the fun this weekend was right in a park near our house.

Who needs porto potties when you can walk a block and be home? lol

So a huge stage was set up in the park and the whole party followed from Gastown to Yaletown, which is our neighbourhood.


So basically we just plopped down our blanket, soaked up the sun and listened to the tunes.

We brought a little wine and walked over to the food section when we got a little hungry.

In this picture, there are 2 buildings in the middle. Ours is the one in the back.










This whole strip had food vendors. There was Greek, Jamaican, BBQ, Corn on the Cob, Crepes, Ice Cream, Lemonade, Fish 'n' Chips, etc.











This the round house, I think I've included it in my pictures before. It was also a venue and bands were playing inside.

Notice all the bikes. At these events there are always bikes everywhere because people avoid driving in the traffic and bring their bikes, roller blades, etc. instead.
Here is one of the vendors who was selling tie dyed clothing.

There was a little beer garden set up selling Granville Island Brewing products.

One of the evenings we happened upon a guy I've met through co-workers and his friend and we ended up sitting down and having a few drinks with them. Turns out he is a close neighbor.

Mike and I are actually getting to the point here were we can go places and just happen to see people we know and hang out with them. It didn't take that long for us to make some friends.

On Canada Day itself, we headed over to "Canada Day at Canada Place".

This is Canada Place, all the sails in the background. It is a big exhibition centre and it is also where the huge cruise ships dock.

This ended up being a bit of a disappointment. This event was mainly for kids and there were tons of crowds. We should have stayed at the Jazz festival, but I wanted to see what it was all about.


There was music, but I think many were child entertainers, and there was this whole room dedicated to these massive blown up playgrounds. There must have been about 20 of them and kids were flying around in them.

This whole room was lit in colored spotlights, basically a kids dream and a parent's nightmare.

They had a RCMP band with bagpipes and the works.

I thought the pic of the RCMP Drum was kind of cool.









They had a Navy frigate too, or whatever they're called and inside the building were all the tanks, vehicles and all that junk.

I'm not really interested in that stuff, but I don't think the frigates make it to Fredericton on Canada Day, eh Dad?


Here is another busker, they're everywhere.

Anyhoots, that was pretty much our Canada Day weekend. I also completed the last of my golf lessons and now I am a force to be reckoned with on the golf course lol.

Cheers,