The owner of our guest house sent one of his staff over to our room to invite us over to help ourselves to the catering left overs once they returned from their event.  We happily went over to help ourselves to beef brisket, corn on the cob, barbeque chicken & chili.  Obviously much more than a bed and breakfast!

We went for a walk around the historic downtown of Coleman.  There are many many old buildings that were the core of the booming coal mining Coleman of the early 1900’s.  Most of the buildings are marked by plaques describing their original use and their evolution.  Very interesting.  What wasn’t so pleasant was the abundance of very large and very hungry mosquitoes.  After fighting them off as well as fatigue from the drive here, we decided to forgo the fireworks.  Instead we went to our room to watch the fireworks from Ottawa.  Then off to bed.

At about 11PM the Coleman fireworks began.  As they were taking place about half a block from us, we had a very noisy late evening.  🙂  We survived!!