Yesterday, I was invited to a birthday celebration which involved the International Fireworks Competition, part of Globalfest. After some not-very-entertaining jazz band finally finished, we had speeches from the MP, MLA and Alderman. And to be honest, Diane Ablonzy reading us a letter from Stephen Harper made me very anxious for the fireworks to begin. So they took a while to begin, but the fireworks were great! I've never seen such interesting fireworks, although I usually experience little green roman candles echoing across our lake. It was pretty amazing what some of the fireworks did. My digital camera has a "Firework" setting, which basically just takes a long time to expose, and it shows the entire trail of the firework. Which is pretty cool. Here are some pictures I took:
By the way, tomorrow you might want to give Sounds Like Canada a listen. You never know who might call in. And if you listened today you might have heard, Jian read a letter from a woman who was inspired by my interview to continue reading. And my progress, fortunatly is not a clever ruse. Although it did take a lot of guts and patience not to lose... hope that is.
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hey hey hey, I heard Jian mention you AGAIN today. Told you that you were his favourite! Except maybe not as much as Chris Murphy is...
Sounds like the Celebration of Lights they have in Vancouver. Its pretty impressive, last for two weeks and different countries compete. The crowds get a little of out hand though, about 300,000 people attend along the shore line.
Since I live downtown I get to hear the thousands of people traveling and then the helicopters as they circle. Gotta love city living ;P
I heard that too! You better listen tomorrow Barbara. You might catch a snippet of Hilary-ness.
That's kind of like Calgary, there were different countries competing. The night we went was Canada night. There were huuge crowds too. The festival took place pretty far into the suburbs, at a lake. I probably wouldn't have got a chance to see them from home.
Oh you "14-year-old wonder girl" you! I'm just listening to SLC with Jian gushing about you and can't wait to hear more after Tegan and Sarah.
Uhoh.
I can't wait to hear the Jian-gushing. I hope it's entertaining.
=)
hahaha, you're comletely famous Hilary (and now Jen is too) although she is a lot more respectful to her elders.
Heehee.
She recorded her part outside Chinook theatre, with a homeless guy staring at us and noisy buses going by. She probably was intimidated into it.
Ohhh.
They used the really-super-nice version she recorded at home. She's not normally that nice.
How many times did you call in?
Nice photos of the fireworks!! I wish I had a fireworks setting...
Just once, if leaving the message is what you mean.
I love how they turned out!
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