National Public Service Week

June 14, 2010

The invitation:

"On June 14, Canadian Heritage (PCH) is holding a celebration at the Canadian Museum of Civilization to recognize your efforts and dedication as public service employees.

Award Ceremony
The Recognition Award Ceremony will kick off the celebration.
It will be held the Canadian Museum of Civilization Theatre at 11:00.

BBQ and Tickets
BBQ tickets are $2 and include a hamburger, veggie burger or hot-dog, salads and a beverage.
Service times will be 12:00 p.m. and 12:30 p.m.

We encourage you to bring a blanket to sit on and enjoy the music and beautiful riverfront setting.

Free Access to ’’The Horse’’ exhibition
The Canadian Museum of Civilization has graciously offered complementary access to the "The Horse" Exhibition at the museum on June 14. *Please note that you will be asked to present your employee card to see the exhibit."

we arrive... now where do we go?

pat always jumps in front of the camera when I take photos!

we arrive nice and early to gets seats in the back (in order to leave quickly for the bbq afterward)

a good turnout for the awards ceremony... unfortunately I didn't win anything (again)

after the ceremony, we take a short cut to the bbq through the childrens museums...
I should have grabbed an umbrella along the way!

we are all being hearded to the bbq

look the sun came out afterall!

the salads and codiments... but where's the beef?

only a short line up!

the chefs hard at work.

victoria looks excited by the sight of lunch!

my burger is the one on the ground! ;)

 
toppings & salads.

the happy bunch!

not bad for $2.00

ok enough photos... time to eat!

the house band plays music during the bbq

after lunch we head back in to cheout the exhibit.

"the horse"

a description of the exhibit

a very tiny horse

checking out the different horses

and the horses were checking us out too

what's wrong? why the long face?!

uncovering the past.

artsy skeleton thing?

horse armour for war time.

and even gas masks

due to the amount of people, we went quickly through the exhibit

a terra cotta horse from india

a trotter skeleton

yeeeeeee-haw!

more horse skeletons... i think they should have had a few live horses on display too!

a firetruck (pulled by horse)

a horse art display

a place for kids to do some horse drawings.

all the different kinds of horse... there is the icelandic horse!

this is how i felt (if I had hair) about only getting one cookie with lunch

it was raining, so we took the shuttle bus back to work (yes... it's only about 5 blocks away)

kids on the bus!

"hey mister bus driver speed up a little bit, speed up a little bit..."

taking a blind photo backwards... looks like one person wasn't too happy about it.

how you doin' ? :P

time to go back to work