Canada day - some photos.

So yesterday was Canada day. I decided to spend it with my family (well mother and brother, since father not going to go anywhere), John and Kat did nothing for the day and didn't really seem like they wanted to.

so we left around noon to go to this Downsview park. Apparently free food was promised.  Lots of people there. And sunshine. And both me and mother forgot about sunscreen so now sporting a sunburn >.<
I dont mind it when people promote stuff at large events like that, but I wish they would stop shoving little booklets into my hands. It's always about religion and charity and I am interested in neither. Promote it, but don't bother us.
Anyways, they did have free food, but they had Giagantic lineups for that too. We got our free hot dog and water and didnt wait for the ice cream and cake.

The Canada Day cake was HUGE. But we didn't get to taste it, not only we didn't want to wait in line under the burning sun, but it was too hot for cake.

There was a petting corner with goats and sheep that included creepy crawlers. I got to hold a tarantula. I love the expressions of the people looking at it in this photo. Especially the little horrified kid.  Another photo of me giving the spider back to the guy. And in this one it looks like the father is saying to the little boy "see? even a girl held the spider and you going to chicken out?"

They also had battle re-enactment. They actually did shoot from the guns. From the other side I thought the middle gunman which is blocked in this photo was a young man compared to the old farts around him. turns out it was a woman! I liked that a lot ^^

Dark Knight movie got fancy advertisement. Perhaps I am just not as big of a fan, but for me this is a rent out movie, not one I am looking to watch in the theaters for some reason. Maybe because it lacks the colourfulness of the previous ones (despite being a little embarrassed in general of watching the older movies, they were FUN, and this one being of too dark for me like all recent movies). On the other hand, I won 2 cineplex tickets, which means I can watch 2 movies for free Or one movie and I can treat someone (probably will end up being the second option with me treating kat).

After that we hang around. I lost 5$ trying to play one of those games where you can win a stuffed toy. and didn't get even one ball into the basket. I had no idea why it made me feel like such a retard or a loser and made me feel down in disproportionate extend. performing in front of people makes me nervous (throwing balls is doing something in front of people, for me), so I couldn't even learn from mistakes lol.

we went home for a short intermission. I ate some cookies with green tea and browsed the forums (the NiGHTS forums) and then we left early because we wanted to park our car at the free parking lot at Finch station and walk our way to mel lastman square. As usual my brother was hungry when we arrived so we had to stand in line for a hotdog. I got a hotdog too =p (and ended up dripping mustard on my jeans and my brothers shirt when we were watching fireworks). The fireworks themselves were beautiful. But I gotta say compared to the first years when we came to canada and now , it became lamer. they always play O Canada at the end. Always. They did it at the victoria day fireworks at wonderland. This time they didnt. WTF? also it was very very short. like less than 10 minutes short. It used to be half an hour. And the song selection was uber lame and hardly fit the fireworks (Avril lavignes girlfriend?! c'mon...). Taxes go up, yet quality of life and actual city event's quality going down? LAME! Its canada day, the one day you should totally bling it up.