Canada Day on Parliament Hill

• gun salutes
• O Canada in both official languages, with a fly-by by the Snowbirds on the closing note
• fresh lemonade
• one million of your closest friends
• Canada Day Free Hugs! from several different fellow Canadians!
• calling in a rooftop fire in Byward Market to the Ottawa fire department! (folks in the building had it mostly out by the time they got there)
• Lunch: Veggine poutine! and bleu cheese & garlic veggie burger! at Zak's Diner
• Le Diable aux Corsets getting a nice round of applause for doing a sound check at Major's Hill Park. =) (They were playing snippets of this song.)
• Two very tired kidlets.
• Fireworks!