HAPPY CANADA DAY!

Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends!  It's July 1st already!  Summer time is here!  I'm all done with school and my final exams and on to the holidays!  I'm so glad there over!  I am having a great summer so far! There has been  lots of relaxing whitch is really nice but I also have been getting outside myself doing errands and  going places downtown which is great!  Anyway, today is Canada Day!  A day where we celebrate the beautiful country we live in and everything it has to offer us.  On the last day of June, yesterday there were fireworks This is an annual event as well as the big parade that goes on the morning after.  The fireworks start a midnight!  We didn't go this year because we were just too tired to stay up that late!  We sure did hear them though!  We heard them all the way from our house.  They went on a long time!  Anyway, my family and I woke up this morning and went downtown.  Invermere has a big Canada day Parade. The weather was perfect for it! It felt just like summertine; just like July 1st with the hot weather and all the tourist!  There`s people on floats and horses and big Fire Trucks and candy throwing and lots of cool stuff!  My mom used to work at the local hardware store, Home Hardware, and it had a float, so my sister and I got to go on a float ride and throw candy  for a few  years.  Like I said, there were tons of fire trucks.  Invermere just got a new Fire Hall so thats probably why!  The all looked great!  They were bright red!  They sprayed water to everyone.  We didn't get sprayed but maybe we should have as it was so hot!  Those parades are always fun to go watch.  They get better and have more stuff evey year I think!  The town of Inermere sure takes pride in their country, witch they should!  So, after the parade, everyone goes to spend the afternoon down at one of our local beaches, Kinsmen Beach!  We just had kind of a flood down there.  The water came up too high.  This is unusual for us, but it was fine, and kids were swimming in the lake and we had a great day!  There are a lot of activities and food down there  to celebrate.  There is singing and dancing and facepainting and games.  Its lots of fun for the kids and everyone else too.  This year, I didn`t just go down to the beach  to check things out like I usually do.  I had a job to do!  The special O group was doing some fundraising down there for diffrents sports and activities that our group could do together.  We gave out Lemonade and Popcorn.  It wasn't really a big fundraiser.  It was more to let people know about our organizationn. We didnt ask for any money, just donations.  We all had blue Special O shirts on that showed what our groupwas, which was cool.  We also had some information to show people what it it about.  We got the big popcorn machene from the hardware and two people manned that!  I took care of pouring lemonade.  That was fun!  We had a good day!  We were very busy!  I kept having to keep pouring and pouring drinks. Customers just kept coming and coming!  We kept having to ask for more cups because we were running out!  It was great though!  I think we got a lot of recongnition from customers!  As I have said, Special O is a very special program for a lot of kids and we hope to keep it going for a long time with some more fun sports to do!  Thankyou to all the Special O volunteers who organized it and helped out!  We coudn't have done it without you.  It was a great day, but a busy day!  We were all tired afterwards!  Like I said, another awesome Canada day!  We should all be very proud and thankful for where we live!  Everyone loves Canada!  it is truly a special country!