FunnyFest 2013 - May 30th

Volunteered tonight at FunnyFest, a 11 day comedy festival held this year from May 30th until June 9th. Comics were really funny BEFORE the event and had us all in stitches during the event. It made for a late night and I'm going to be very tired tomorrow at work - BUT WORTH IT! Here are some pictures from tonight.

 

Andrew Albert - Comic & MC for the night

Ben Yee

Sanjay T.

Noor Kidwai

Peter Hudson

Paul Kuster

Ron Vaudry

Chris Gaskin

Matt Billon

Simon King - Headliner

Volunteers & Comics

Pictures from the 4th Floor

Here are some pictures from my 4th floor balcony.

hidden sunset

view of the shopping carts

storm clouds

flowers on the balcony below us

View from the 17th Floor

In our building, the 17th floor has a common area sunroom and patio. Here are some pictures taken from the 17th floor patio.

Flowers growing on rooftop garden

Lovely mountains to the West

Ctrain going southbound

Elementary School

Football field to the west

Yes, that's Heritage Park!

Gasoline Alley at Heritage Park 

Heritage Park

Glenmore Reservoir

Downtown view to the North

New Bow building towering over Calgary Tower

Macleod trail

Backyards

Junkyard??

Rockyview Hospital

Soccor!

the Famous Ranchman's Bar on Macleod South

the new South Hospital - close to mom & dad's

That white "pole" in the middle of the picture is actually the bridge going over the Bow River at Fish Creek. This bridge just just down the hill from mom & dad's. If they had a huge flag in their yard, we could find their house.

Shopping cart's abandoned beside the CPR tracks

View of the rooftop patio

Close-up of the only red daffodil

Lilac Festival 2013

Again this year Lucy and I went to the Lilac Festival. This is a free one day event that starts off Calgary's vibrant festival season and encourages citizens to shake off their winter blues and reintroduce themselves to the thriving creating community in our city.

There are over 500 vendors that vary from artisan crafts to imported goods to community organizations. Approximately 12 blocks are shut down to all motor vehicle traffic and replaced with pedestrian traffic.

I did find out that Lucy does NOT like live bands and kinda freaked out. But she was good after that. She UNofficially ensured the street was cleaned up from food that was accidentally dropped.

It was a gorgeous day and I got a little bit of a sunburn. Here are just a few pictures from the parade that starts off the festival.

Lucy's favourite - a BAND

Big Bee

Peacock stilt walker