Wow Canada Day

I have no idea what to say. After my first night in Victoria, I'm madly deeply in love with the city. Or maybe it was just yesterday's Canada day activities that were excellent. I'll start off by saying waking up 630 in the morning to go on a plane really sucks, and it's just my luck everytime I take the plane it's always early in the morning like that. After a little confusion on where people were going I was finally allocated to my billet where we got acquainted then as soon as I got out of the van he put me to work on helping him get ready for his Canada party he had arranged unaware that my arrival date was 1st and not the 4th as he once had thought.

It gave me a chance to get to know him but as soon as I was done I was anxious to hear stories from the rest of my shep crew of how their billets faired and to find out who really had the best setup here in Victoria. After some lunch we got wandered around downtown and the harbour. All while walking down and noticing the nice scenery I had the feeling of stupidity that I could forget to bring my camera to such a good event. Then I thought to myself I got 4 more months and hopefully occasions such as this would happen again. If not my memory will do it's best to keep the image alive. After heading back to the house for a nap, I awoke to the knowledge that Ottawa beat Montreal. Let me say this now, what an upset.

Aside from the point I met a few people then headed back downtown to take in the true Canada Day festivities. Not a whole lot can be said except meeting those 2 guys from the States who were part of the military was pretty cool. The one guy was heading out to Afghanistan in a few weeks and the other guy was going into the Marines which to me sounds like the craziest thing a person could go through. After some time spent listening to their stories in garrison plus a little bit of booze we headed back out to the harbour to enjoy the fireworks and meet some pretty cool people and by the end of the night I stumbled home from the bus at 1 in morning. Did I enjoy it?? I think the stumbling part speaks for itself.

SOTD- Such a Rush - Coldplay