July 1, 2008
Happy Canada Day
Today was sunny and hot again.
This morning we headed for Osoyoos, about 45 minutes east of here, for the Canada Day Cherry Fiesta celebration. We found a place to park on a residential street and walked a couple of blocks over to the Canada Day Cherry Fiesta Parade route on Main Street. The parade was started by a town fire truck slowly driving by shooting a heavy stream of water out of its roof mounted water cannon hundreds of feet into the air over the crowd. Instant rain ! Instant cool down ! After the parade we wandered over to Gyro Park and Gyro Bandshell where a variety of entertainment took place all day long. We watched musical groups, had lunch, ate some of the huge Canada Day cake, and watched the cherry pie eating contest. HA HA HA ! Quite an exhibition of hands free eating. It was too hot to wander over to the lakeshore where the cherry pit spit contest took place. HA HA HA ! On the way back to Keremeos I stopped at the Osoyoos airstrip to see if it was a suitable place to fly into, to do a "touch and go" just as an excuse to go "flightseeing".
Tonight while I was barbecuing a thick, juicy steak for our Canada Day supper, I sat on our park bench and watched a Bald Eagle fishing about 20 feet over the Similkameen River. What a beautiful place to live !
DSK
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