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		<title>Canada Day Fireworks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Canada Day Fireworks 2008, Edmonton, Alberta.
      
Trying to decide which Fireworks to go to always seems like such a dilemma every July 1st at our house. We live in Millwoods and usually end up heading up on the roof to watch the fireworks at Millwoods Park, which is only a block away. This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong> Canada Day Fireworks 2008, Edmonton, Alberta.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ocanadad.com/" title="Millwoods Fireworks, Edmonton, Alberta"><img src="http://blog.canadianparents.com/ocanadad/files/2008/07/fireworks.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Millwoods Fireworks, Edmonton, Alberta" /></a><a href="http://ocanadad.com/index_files/category-fireworks.html" title="Edmonton Fireworks, Canada Day 2008">   <img src="http://blog.canadianparents.com/ocanadad/files/2008/07/fireworks-2.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Edmonton Fireworks, Canada Day 2008" />   </a><a href="http://ocanadad.com/index_files/Canada-Day-Fireworks.html" title="O CANADA 2008 Fireworks"><img src="http://blog.canadianparents.com/ocanadad/files/2008/07/fireworks-3.thumbnail.jpg" alt="O CANADA 2008 Fireworks" /></a></p>
<p>Trying to decide which Fireworks to go to always seems like such a dilemma every July 1st at our house. We live in Millwoods and usually end up heading up on the roof to watch the fireworks at Millwoods Park, which is only a block away. This year the problem was that I had just started a <a href="http://www.ocanadad.com/" title="Canada Dad">Canadian Dad Blog</a> and wanted to record video of the fireworks for my site.</p>
<p>This left us with a few options. We could either head to the roof like previous years, walk over to the Millwoods fireworksto get a better view of the light show or lastly we could head downtownto record the big City of Edmonton Canada Day celebrations. While as 11:00pm approached we settled for hustling the kids up to the local show.</p>
<p>It started off a little slow but turned into quite a spectacle. We got a great seat at the top of the hill where we enjoyed the Canada Day lights. I was hoping to stream the video <a href="http://ocanadad.com/" title="Canadian Blogger">live on my blog</a> but couldn&#8217;t find an internet connection to stream off of. We did however get lucky enough to  record the video and upload it from home later.</p>
<p>Check out the whole video at <a href="http://www.ocanadad.com" title="Canada Day Fireworks Blog">OCanaDad.Com</a></p>
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		<title>Music, the greatest gift to give a child.</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>             About 5 yrs ago we bought our kids an acoustic guitar.             I’d love to tell you that they picked it right up and             started playing beautiful music, but the truth is they             hardly played the thing. To start we had no idea how to             tune it. The kids twanged away for a few days and very             quickly lost interest.</p>
<p>This guitar beacme many things over the next few years.             Some days it was a sword chasing the kids around the             room, weilded by the valiant prince known better to me             as my oldest son. Some days it was a sea creature,             being slayen by pirates as it got tossed around, case             and all, from floor to couch and back to floor again.</p>
<p>&#8230;see the entire post at <a href="http://www.ocanadad.com" title="OCANADAD.COM">http://www.ocanadad.com/OCanaDad.com</a></p>
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