July 1, 2006 – Last Saturday was Canada Day. Since the temperature outside is downright summer we were so lazy to go out and check the festivities. Instead we waited after dinner to drive around Mississauga area and find out what’s cooking. Last year’s Port Credit celebration was a success so we decided to go there first. Since we were late for the Paint the Town Red activities we decided to stop by instead at the Port Credit Harbour Marina. It was 8:30 in the evening and it wasn’t dark yet so it is a perfect opportunity to take that long overdue picture of Port Credit Lighthouse along Lakeshore Road.

We then went to Streetsville in Meadowvale, Mississauga to catch the fireworks display. Like last year, it was a pain to get a parking space since everybody seems to be going to that direction. After getting lucky to be parked, we walked. We haven’t been to the destination yet when the fireworks started – b@#$%r! So, from a distance, I set myself up to take a picture of the fireworks but it wasn’t really that good. I guess after watching the Double-10 celebration in Hong Kong back during the year of the British handover I wasn’t expecting anything that will top that experience. But this year’s firework display in Mississauga was the worse ever. Last year’s Port Credit fireworks display was a tad better. Turned out that our short walk wasn’t a drag after all since we were among the first one to clear the crowd back to were we were park and get out of the place (last year it took us more than an hour to get out of Port Credit). Maybe next year we’ll go to Toronto to see their fireworks display.

However, the lighthouse pictures at Port Credit turned out great.