Canada Day 2008

It's become tradition in recent years to head over to a friend's house for swimming, bbq and a "fireworks extravaganza". Since we are creatures of habit we were anxiously awaiting the evite for this one. This year was a blast as usual. The weather was perfect, Simon was in a great mood (particularly since he was in reach of nacho chips) and we enjoyed having a chance to catch up with friends that we don't often see. Another couple who had had a baby a few days before us had their little girl there and Simon and her had a blast playing with the rocks in the yard. Simon was not into the cold water of the pool and was pretty miserable until we took pity on him and let him get out. Having a 7:00pm bedtime to adhere too makes for a pretty short evening but since we had to work the next day, we didn't make arrangements for Simon to stay elsewhere so I headed home and left Matt to enjoy the rest of the festivities and the fireworks (secretly I'm scared of the fireworks extravagana - drunk people setting off fireworks in suburbia is a recipes for disaster in past years they have almost set the volleyball net and a passing car on fire). We look forward to this annual tradition next year.