Victoria Symphony Splash – 8/2/2015
August 2, 2015 (Sunday)
Today was all about the Victoria Symphony Splash. Larry had gotten up early to get his walk in and said it was filling up (around 9:00 AM) in the Inner Harbor. We hurriedly got everything together and went down to try to get a spot. We finally found a good spot on the grass near the “Welcome to Victoria” flowers that greet visitors in the Inner Harbor. We all took turns waiting at the chairs or walking around and checking things out. There was a fun little area where vendors had lots of local and unique craft items. Jan and Caron met us at the chairs in the early afternoon.
Want to mention about Larry and his walking. He has a “fitbit” and tries to get in at least 10,000 steps a day. The fitbit measures his heart, how many flights of stairs, how he sleeps, calories burned – all sorts of things. So cool. Michael and I are wanting to get one, or something like it. The only thing we don’t like is that it’s not water proof. Even though we don’t go swimming that much, we would like to have the option of taking it in the water to measure our exercise. We want it all darn it!
We got to watch the Sunday morning water taxi water ballet. So fun and cute. Glad we finally got to see it as we’d been hearing about it the last few years we’ve been coming. Just never wanted to get up that early to see it.
We waited and the warm up band started singing around 4:00 PM.
The Splash started with the bag pipe parade down Government Street at around 6:45 PM.
As usual, the Splash was wonderful.
The fireworks this year seemed more intense and lovely. Sure is a great thing and seemed much more crowded this year.
We’ve decided we’d have to get up way early next year to get a good spot (or maybe sleep out on the lawn). Once again on our walk home we got to see the cannons being loaded up into the truck.
After the Splash everyone but Jim and Anna went back to our room and shared more stories, laughs, and wine. Great time.
That was our day. Hope yours was great!