It's 12:30 a.m and I'm eating.....I know i shouldn't but I cant help it,i'm hungry. I have been out since 8pm. I just got back from one of the biggest events of the summer here at B.C.'s English Bay..Its called the Celebration of Lights and is the biggest show of its kind in the world....its basically a massive fireworks display competition done to music..
...Italy started the show off today......its a really spectacular event...it attracts some half a million people to a small strip of downtown vancouver's beach.....and its free to watch...another unique feature of this event....i had almost forgotten about the amount of human traffic that congests the streets in the hours leading to the show..... i thought i'd got it all figured out by deciding to go across the bridge which connected downtown to the 'burbs and watching the show from that side to avoid the crowds....after waiting for over 45 mins for the bus and not getting an empty one and after repeatedly calling taxi service and being told to just flag one down, i eventually had to make the 20 minute trek across the bridge to watch a 30 mins fireworks show.....
It was interesting though....i made a new Brazilian friend as we walked together across the bridge....There were lots of drunk teenagers.......i noticed a few bodies passed out on the streets as i returned home....with friends trying to revive them or carry them home....young guys shouting out of their cars at passing girls....they are the same everywhere......the little people....as a friend of mine calls teenagers........i can still hear a few of them shouting obscenities at each other in the streets..lovely! all it takes is a couple of beers.....these kids can't hold their liquor, i swear....
for China's show which is next, i think i'll just stay downtown...keep it simple...it might be packed but at least i just have to walk a few blocks.....and not worry about being jumped or run over by some drunken teenagers.....too bad my apartment doesnt face the beach.....i wouldnt have to budge....
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