Happy Canada Day!

The skies were gloomy and grey and I think the city is missing Kathryn as well (for those not in the know, she's out doing field archeology) but I did my best to get out and enjoy the day despite my lack of good company. The parade was quite enjoyable and summed up Canadas multicultural vibe quite nicely through mounties, bagpipes, korean drummers, brazilian martial arts, local theatre groups and gay rights (with a few weirdos on stilts thrown in for good measure).
Vancouvers soft-drug laws are lightly enforced at the best of times, so the art gallery grounds were taken over entirely by a pro-drug party with all the amusement that comes from hundreds of stoned people hanging out together. I haven't seen pot sales that flagrant and in-your-face since Amsterdam ;)
Canada Place is a large convention centre by the waterfront and the area all around it was transformed into an pedestrian corridor with several stages for music, play areas for the kids and every imaginable kind of pastry or meat on a stick that your arteries could ever fear.

Click the panorama below to enlarge it.