Fireworks festival China on Saturday 7/30, Canada on 8/6. Fantastic. A couple of new designs: from China, a spiral red display; both has one that goes up and down and back up; from Canada, a large normal spherical display and then after going dark for a couple of seconds, re-illuminated as a bigger sphere (especially wonderful when the display is sparkling).
Very crowded. Drizzled after 7/30's show.
Wednesday's is Spain. I took a 3:30pm bus to Vancouver hoping to watch it. Alas, Greyhound was 2.5 hrs late. So I arrived at Main St. station at 9:50pm, too late to walk to English Bay.