Happy 4th of July to our American friends!

Fireworks in Palm Springs are very regulated  and individuals are not allowed to let off personal fireworks. They do have some great public displays for Independence Day. Halloween is dead quiet and we usually tried to escape our noisy Halloween here. We won't be able to do that this year. It's not quite so bad at UBC. Everyone wanted to light fireworks over the water so English Bay wasn't a great place to be for that. Perhaps one of these days Greater Vancouver will ban fireworks like Greater Victoria did many years ago.