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ltmurnauOK, so last night had the potential to be a really disappointing duck-f**k but instead it was the most fun I've had in a good while!
It started with missed buses and RVs (RendezVous points, that is). Eve missed her bus from UVic, I met Anne downtown and we went on our own to the meeting point we thought was the right one, Mile Zero at the southwest corner of Beacon Hill Park. Nobody was there - we found out later it had been changed to the southEAST corner of the park, Cook and Dallas (I hadn't bothered to read the later e-mails changing the meeting place). I left Anne at Mile 0 and walked back up Douglas to meet Eve who had taken a later bus, walked all the way back downtown without seeing her, and walked all the way back to Mile 0 again to find her there - she had cut through the park itself.
Anyway, there were the three of us standing there, late but in the right place as far as we knew. A snooty British lady asked the black-clad freaks to move away from the pile of stones that is Mile 0 so she could take a picture, so we decided to go up to the summit of Beacon Hill. We wandered around some more and sat and ate supper by the children's playground. Everyone brought different things so it was a good meal, and loads left over!
Then we swung on the swings for a bit, and Eve blew some bubbles. A little kid tottered over to blow some with her, he was quite polite in his vocabulary-challenged way - "Blow. Please? More. More. More. Please? Please? Blow."
We went back to Anne's place to drop off some stuff, had a coffee and wandered downtown. Saw a fire-spinning act at the Inner Harbour and were going to climb trees on the lawn at St. Ann's when poof, it was almost 11:00 and Eve and I had to turn into pumpkins and go home.
What made the difference was having good friends around. If I had gone there on my own, I would have been ticked off for not finding anyone there, and mad at myself all over again the next day for not being in the right place anyway. But we had a great time! Hurray for friends!
It started with missed buses and RVs (RendezVous points, that is). Eve missed her bus from UVic, I met Anne downtown and we went on our own to the meeting point we thought was the right one, Mile Zero at the southwest corner of Beacon Hill Park. Nobody was there - we found out later it had been changed to the southEAST corner of the park, Cook and Dallas (I hadn't bothered to read the later e-mails changing the meeting place). I left Anne at Mile 0 and walked back up Douglas to meet Eve who had taken a later bus, walked all the way back downtown without seeing her, and walked all the way back to Mile 0 again to find her there - she had cut through the park itself.
Anyway, there were the three of us standing there, late but in the right place as far as we knew. A snooty British lady asked the black-clad freaks to move away from the pile of stones that is Mile 0 so she could take a picture, so we decided to go up to the summit of Beacon Hill. We wandered around some more and sat and ate supper by the children's playground. Everyone brought different things so it was a good meal, and loads left over!
Then we swung on the swings for a bit, and Eve blew some bubbles. A little kid tottered over to blow some with her, he was quite polite in his vocabulary-challenged way - "Blow. Please? More. More. More. Please? Please? Blow."
We went back to Anne's place to drop off some stuff, had a coffee and wandered downtown. Saw a fire-spinning act at the Inner Harbour and were going to climb trees on the lawn at St. Ann's when poof, it was almost 11:00 and Eve and I had to turn into pumpkins and go home.
What made the difference was having good friends around. If I had gone there on my own, I would have been ticked off for not finding anyone there, and mad at myself all over again the next day for not being in the right place anyway. But we had a great time! Hurray for friends!
