Fredericton NB – Holiday Events
Monday, August 4, 2008 17:08I went to the events taking place outside the old Government House as soon as I had the chance when the rains broke for a short period of time. Although it was New Brunswick Day today, it was also CFB Gagetown’s 50th Anniversary and they were showing off a bunch of their toys and stuff in town today.
The video below shows you just how bad it was raining this morning as I watched and waited for it to slow down or stop. Then when it did I headed out and took a few pictures and video.
Not as much video as I would have liked to take, but there wasn’t a whole lot happening. I videoed this remote control robot thing but as soon as I started to video it, the operator stopped moving it around and just moved the cameras around. Boooriiiing!
Then I took some video of one of the vehicles driving by as I was walking back home.
I also took a few pictures of the different displays they had there also.
You can view all the other pictures from my Flickr Account in my New Brunswick Day – 2008 set.
I didn’t stay long because it started to rain a little more heavier again, and I didn’t want to be stuck in a downpour. It wasn’t all that interesting anyway. At least for me it wasn’t as I’ve seen this stuff so many times coming from a Military Family, but the kids seemed to enjoy themselves rain or not.
The only active place was the line up of folks wanting to go on a tank ride. The one you saw in the ending of the above video.
I wish the weather was a lot better or I would have gotten more pictures and video. My feet were getting soaked and I didn’t want the rain getting inside my camera either. There probably would have been a lot more going on if it weren’t for all the rain. A lot of the scheduled events have been canceled due to the rain.. To bad really.
What miserable weather. If it were a lot nicer the scheduled events would have been fun.
DragonLady says:
August 4th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Nothin’ like rain for a holiday celebration. It was cloudy and cold every 4th of July we were in England. Kind of ironic.
MacBros says:
August 4th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
@DragonLady – Yup, musta sucked for the folks in Moncton. The Eagles were playing, and it was an outdoor concert.
It’s raining all the time in the UK anyway. LOL
DragonLady says:
August 4th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
True dat. Rain doesn’t bother me at all now after 5 years of getting soaked in it.
MacBros says:
August 4th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
@amber – Stay tuned, maybe somebody will answer that.