Kite arches!!
Yesterday was a fabulous day.
It was the freo kite festival and so I took my bug down to South Beach for the VW meetup that takes place in conjunction with the air-born insanity. The weather was PERfect. Sunny and windy and wonderful. It was great, because the parking lot RIGHT next to the event was cordoned off and filled with vintage VWs, like special reserved parking for special not-so-reserved people. It was like instantly being part of the in crowd when they opened the gates to let my pink bug and it's driver enter. I ate lunch at a really cool restaurant called missymoos. They had two walls painted with blackboard paint and their menu and specials were all chalked up in bright colors and pictures. They also had a wall of boardgames and scrabble tiles spelled out, "the cow jumped jack was pushed and the ugly duckling turned out to be ugly after all," which amused me. I drew a cow jumping over a hamburger moon for them while I waited for my tasty tasty burger and thick cut fries.
I met some fun people and saw some GREAT bugs and got some good advice.
I also found out about another event I'd like to go to. :D Bugs are fun... they come with communities of creative crazy people.
The kite fest was also pretty special. They have these big arches made up of hundreds of kites strung together side by side and BIG, beautiful, shiny, bright, delicate, octagonal, flagellated kites floating and fluttering on tethers like deep sea apparitions. I regret forgetting my camera. I want to make some cool kite arches for Burning Man as they looked to pack up quite small and were really quite beautiful. It's definitely windy enough at BM, I just hope it's not too windy...
Then I went to pick up Matt from his trip and changed quickly and went strait to a gig at the local show (City fair). I got some good practice in and it was good fun despite one of the things I most fear occurring. I had a wardrobe malfunction while doing poi. The neck band of my halter-topped costume came undone.... I caught it just in time, but I had to run off protecting my modesty and trying to free myself from flaming poi at the same time. Embarrassing. >_>;;;
But afterwards I had a dinner of chips, doughnuts, and cotton candy and sat around with my awesome friends and watched the greyhounds run and told silly jokes.
Yes... my life rocks. ^_^
It was the freo kite festival and so I took my bug down to South Beach for the VW meetup that takes place in conjunction with the air-born insanity. The weather was PERfect. Sunny and windy and wonderful. It was great, because the parking lot RIGHT next to the event was cordoned off and filled with vintage VWs, like special reserved parking for special not-so-reserved people. It was like instantly being part of the in crowd when they opened the gates to let my pink bug and it's driver enter. I ate lunch at a really cool restaurant called missymoos. They had two walls painted with blackboard paint and their menu and specials were all chalked up in bright colors and pictures. They also had a wall of boardgames and scrabble tiles spelled out, "the cow jumped jack was pushed and the ugly duckling turned out to be ugly after all," which amused me. I drew a cow jumping over a hamburger moon for them while I waited for my tasty tasty burger and thick cut fries.
I met some fun people and saw some GREAT bugs and got some good advice.
I also found out about another event I'd like to go to. :D Bugs are fun... they come with communities of creative crazy people.
The kite fest was also pretty special. They have these big arches made up of hundreds of kites strung together side by side and BIG, beautiful, shiny, bright, delicate, octagonal, flagellated kites floating and fluttering on tethers like deep sea apparitions. I regret forgetting my camera. I want to make some cool kite arches for Burning Man as they looked to pack up quite small and were really quite beautiful. It's definitely windy enough at BM, I just hope it's not too windy...
Then I went to pick up Matt from his trip and changed quickly and went strait to a gig at the local show (City fair). I got some good practice in and it was good fun despite one of the things I most fear occurring. I had a wardrobe malfunction while doing poi. The neck band of my halter-topped costume came undone.... I caught it just in time, but I had to run off protecting my modesty and trying to free myself from flaming poi at the same time. Embarrassing. >_>;;;
But afterwards I had a dinner of chips, doughnuts, and cotton candy and sat around with my awesome friends and watched the greyhounds run and told silly jokes.
Yes... my life rocks. ^_^