Fireworks from the roof
Montreal had what I thought was a lacklustre showing for Canada Day celebrations a couple days ago - I suppose everyone was already tired from the big Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day the week before. I went for a stroll downtown with Daniel and Kim, two people that I knew at Acadia who have also made their way to Montreal, and while it was a generally good time, there weren’t any displays or activities that really drew our attention. Still, it was a good walk.
But whatever the city was lacking in daytime activities, in made up for with the fireworks display later that night. Daniel, Kim and Sara (who I met for the first time) came over to join Care and I on the roof, which was a perfect location to watch the fireworks. It started drizzling about halfway through the display, and then all-out rain near the end, but the view was too good to give up by going back inside. We had originally been concerned about the roof being crowded with like-minded celebrants of Canada Day, eager to watch the fireworks from such an ideal vantage point, but there were only two people not a part of our group out there. After the fireworks, we realized that the fact it was Moving Day coupled with a primarily francophone (and thus, perhaps, Sovereignist?) building probably contributed to having the roof mostly to ourselves. There’s probably some sort of politically incorrect Federalist joke I could make there, but I’ll resist the temptation..
