More Heat

Sooo warm. In fact, this morning at 11am, I was over at J. and V.'s and their thermostat read 38.8C when we left to go to Stanley Park for an Indian Festival. Biking wasn't too bad, and we staked out a good spot in the shade for the parade (Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Hare Hare, Krishna Krishna, and repeat!)... the real heat came when we got to the park, and saw the line for food. The website had boasted "Free Vegetarian Feast for 20000 People", that's a lot of food for a lot of people. The line was long and in the sun. But the food was good, and the wait was worth it.

We spent a little time under a tent, listening to chants and songs, and one of the young singers fell unconscious due to heat and dehydration I think. It was quite scary. Luckily he seemed fine after drinking 3 bottles of water. Lots of water drinking for us after that! V. and I then got out hands painted with henna, very pretty! This meant that we had to wait an hour before swimming, so back to the shade. After waiting like patient adults for the hour to elapse, we put clover oil on to protect the henna and headed to the ocean. The paint seemed to be coming off in the water despite our wait, so V. and I did some crazy acrobatics to keep our hands out of the water and still cool off.

After the very welcome dip, J. and V. headed off to yet another music festival somewhere else in the city (Vancouver in the summer is crazy busy and simply an incredible place to be. For example, last Friday B. and I decided to go to Wreck Beach for the afternoon and on the way there stumbled upon an Anime Convention at UBC! Lots of amazing costumes!!). I was lazy and decided to get more free food and enjoy Second Beach for a bit before biking home.

In other news, I tried making Kettle Corn for a snack tonight, and failed to read the instruction to put the sugar on before the popcorn started to pop and thought I had read to add it just after the first few pops... Needless to say that I was attacked by flying, burning popcorn soon after lifting the lid!