Kay, Marlene, Clayton and Martin
Rain overnight left the morning a little overcast but this burned off to a really sunny day by mid morning.
We met up at the Old Strathcona Saturday farmers market, where we saw lots of Canadian foodstuffs from yellow tomatoes to Ukrainian baking.
There was a jazz band playing and Ann entertained the shoppers with a display of country dancing.
We then took a return trip on the streetcar over the high level bridge over the river. It was really interesting - the cars and tracks have been fixed up by volunteers and the cars are manned by volunteers. The conductor was a retired Physics professor which made our Iain delighted as he had not had a physicist to talk to all tour! The conductor was also a Scotsman having emigrated from Paisley in 1972.
We went up to the conservatory a modern building of four pyramids each displaying different tropical plants. A great surprise to all was a burlesque show put on by 'Capital City Burlesque' a very saucy dance display. At the second performance Ann's services were needed again---no not for the dancing ---the music for the Can Can failed and Ann and one of the girls had to sing the tune for the girls to dance to- sorry no photos as your roving reported had the video going!
Back to our hosts before the farewell party.
We met up at the Old Strathcona Saturday farmers market, where we saw lots of Canadian foodstuffs from yellow tomatoes to Ukrainian baking.
There was a jazz band playing and Ann entertained the shoppers with a display of country dancing.
We then took a return trip on the streetcar over the high level bridge over the river. It was really interesting - the cars and tracks have been fixed up by volunteers and the cars are manned by volunteers. The conductor was a retired Physics professor which made our Iain delighted as he had not had a physicist to talk to all tour! The conductor was also a Scotsman having emigrated from Paisley in 1972.
We went up to the conservatory a modern building of four pyramids each displaying different tropical plants. A great surprise to all was a burlesque show put on by 'Capital City Burlesque' a very saucy dance display. At the second performance Ann's services were needed again---no not for the dancing ---the music for the Can Can failed and Ann and one of the girls had to sing the tune for the girls to dance to- sorry no photos as your roving reported had the video going!
Back to our hosts before the farewell party.
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