Fireworks, Friends, Flames, and Futility.

Alliteration is my friend... apparently.

So! What have I been up to that's put the posting on hold the last two weeks? Friends from Australia and England, celebrations, work, Batman, pubs, clubs, street-fairs, and of course, walrus riding.

In all honesty, I slept most of today. I was actually up at 6:00am, off to the bakery for breakfast, read a little, wrote a little, then back home where I learned that it's futile to try and read curled up by the bed in sunlight. I crashed and didn't get out of bed again until two. I blame cornish game hens.

The atmosphere in this city has been crazy lately. Firstly the Celebration of Light took place, a spectacular four night fireworks show spread across two weeks, where three countries 'compete' by setting their pyrotechnics to some kind of score or soundtrack. People gather in the hundreds of thousands across Vancouver's various shorelines with radios and blankets to watch it. The finale was on Saturday night, which combines a little of all three competitors' shows, and I had the pleasure of spending the evening with some mates from the North Shore, an old school buddy & his friends who were in Vancouver as part of a travel thingamy, and a couple that were waaaay more interested in face-mashing than the colourful spectacle in front of them.

Not only was this weekend the finale of the Celebration of Light, it was also pride weekend. Downtown was basically inaccessible for the parade on Sunday. Great fun - much sunburn, much mental scarring - but great fun.

It was also British Columbia's 150th birthday long weekend. So as well as the hundreds of thousands of people the gathered for the fireworks and pride celebrations, Monday was (thankfully) a day off; I think most of the city (and I) needed it to recover.

Tonight it was off to dinner and the movies with some other friends to see the new Batman.
Now straight off the bat (forgive the pun), it takes a lot to get me into a movie, and a lot for me to actually like one after it's finished. I really enjoyed this movie. Not going to spoil it or give any preconceptions, but Heath Ledger's performance was golden. Only thing that annoyed me (and this is kinda nitpicky) was Christian Bale's Batman voice. Bruce Wayne = awesome, Batman voice = not so awesome. But each to their own.

That's all for now. Said posts are still coming, I'm just waiting for a moment to put finger to keyboard - to speak in modern terms - and for some BBQ sauce to arrive.

Jimzip :D