Canada day, I went out with friends in the evening and played a short game of scrabble, learning new rules (apparently you can spell multiple words in a turn) and then went to watch the fireworks at the old port. As usual there were massive crowds, and we pushed through to try to get a good spot to watch. However as luck would have it, instead of shooting them off from the same location that the annual international fireworks festival chooses, we got smack dab across the water from where they were letting them off. I was so close I could see the little flaming dots as the actual firework shot into the sky.
The show must have lasted ten minutes and specialized in being big and bright. My favourite was the spiraling sparklers that whizzed up several stories into the air in a serpentine of little points of light, but they had the usual multi-coloured firework pops, and some sort of red tinted firework that exploded twice, for a double blossoming effect.
After fireworks, there was a general push to go to a Macdonald’s, and Mothboy horrified us with tales of the improperly cleaned milkshake machine. I had chicken nuggets, something I hadn’t tried for several years. Last time they were disappointing little dried out lumps, but either the health conscious rebranding phase has blown over or these ones were more fresh, and suitably moist and greasy, grey inside, rather than glaring white, and full of hot salt and oil.
I’m not sure how I feel about the hideous lime green new look that they decided to institute. Mothboy thinks it’s stylish, but the horrid lime and red colour scheme and tan-zebra patterned tables suggest cheap wood, and a sushi bar with issues, not wholesome unhealthy treat food. Perhaps it’s not helped that the biggest picture on their menu is now the enormous salad, which feels like the obvious pandering it is. Whatever, at least the mainstay of my childhood desire has been restored to its former glory. Mmmm, generic chicken parts!