Saturday 15 May 04

Today I went to a Street Festival in the ‘U’ district (the part of town where the University campus and housing is located). I took the bus up there with Megan (19 year old rock chick from the Mid-West, Megan is loud but very sweet and has an infectious sense of fun) and Daniel (26 year old guy I think from Colorado, he was one of the coolest people I met, I liked him for the same reasons I like Seattle, he was laid back but not lazy he always seemed to have something to say or do but never seemed to need to try too hard or worry about anything too much). We spent a few hours walking around the stalls looking at jewellery and arts and crafts. Daniel got distracted by a guy selling drums and ended up playing the drums with the guy for about an hour! I had my back checked out by a Chiropractor which was kind of odd, sitting in a chair in the street while some guy feels your spine and then tells you that the reason you get migraine could be caused by one of your vertebrae being out of alignment?? We ate noodles while watching bands and street performers. We saw a great Bluegrass band called ‘The Haggis Brothers’ and some pretty good indie rock bands. We also saw some street performers doing the thing that’s kind of like dance but also a bit like martial arts, or Tai Chi, I don’t know what it’s called but it was pretty cool to watch.

When Megan, Daniel and I got back to the Hostel we started to arrange a party for Megan’s birthday. Hillary a new girl in my room but who knew Megan and Daniel because she’d stayed at the Hostel a few weeks earlier, set about making Vodka Jello while the boys went to buy beer. Megan and I were tasked with going to the Sex Shop round the corner to buy ‘Gummi Body Parts’!! We thought it would be fun to ‘bob’ in the Vodka Jello for candy shaped like male and female anatomy. Well our task ended up being a mission because the place round the corner didn’t have them, they sent us a couple of blocks over to another place, but they were out too, by the time we got to the third place we couldn’t be bothered to look round the store and just walked up to the counter ‘Excuse me but do you have any gummi boobs?’. Fortunately they did have them otherwise it might have seemed a somewhat ridiculous question.

We had a great party, I admit I got pretty drunk which was possibly due to Hillary using a litre of Vodka for the Jello and Megan feeding everyone it from a huge serving spoon!