Despite a holiday (Victoria Day) I did commute today to do my usual volunteer dog walking at the Humane Society. It was a beautiful commute - hardly any cars on the roads at all! And in the evening instead of heading home I met up with my bf and we rode to the Ashbridges Bay park where there were firework displays. It was quite amazing. There was a whole large sandy beach there full of people and all over the place fireworks were going off before the official event even started! I've never seen so many 'folk' firework displays in one place. It was slightly unnerving, with all those things going off all around ya! But then the big thing started and it was amazing - one of the best locations I've ever watched fireworks from. They were going off right above our heads. And unlike it usually is, nobody was blocking anyone's view, there were no real "best" spots - it was great no matter where you watched it from. A very nice atmosphere.

Then we quickly rode back before the cagers even managed to get back into their cars to drive away. The path along the lake was full of pedestrians (people walking to their cars parked at a plaza about a mile away), but the usually awful Lakeshore Blvd. was closed to cars for some of the way and had very light traffic for a bit more, because it was feeding off a narrow parking lot exit. A cluster of bikes occupied the whole right lane - felt like a critical mass ride. Past the plaza the traffic thickened but the MUP became empty again as pedestrians turned into cagers at that point. Getting out by bike definitely was the fastest and most convenient way to do it. I don't really understand people who drive to those events. Trying to get out of there at the same time as everyone else is a huge PITA. I know; my parents do these things with strange regularity and I used to get dragged along.