Mood:
happyToday deserves a special mention on the blog.
As I've already stated, Canberra is currently celebrating its Multicurtural Festival, which it does every year. We went last night for the kickoff music and dance at the Fringe stage, which was great!
Today, we went back to the festival and found over 160 tents with people from all over the world, each one with food to sample or buy, there are four stages with dance groups and musicians coming and going every 15-30 minutes. We sat for a while and listened to some great music from around the world. We saw several dance groups perform. -And we ate. Oh, man, did we eat.
Being Saturday (yeah!) we literally went from tent to tent and sampled just about everything from the dates and figs in the Middle East section (United Arab Emerates, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, all where there) to the pastries of Greece and Sri Lanka, to the rice and curry from India and China, to the kebabs of Bosnia, and so on and so on.
Then, when all was said and done, we went to the National Gallery for their Underground Sounds concert. It was held in the underground parking garage of the National Gallery. It was a no alcohol, no smoking, free to the public, Australian Hip Hop concert, complete with local rappers and DJs and a few from around Australia (and one from the States). It was a great concert! It was amazing to see kids, grown ups, teens, everyone just enjoying the hip hop music of today. Seriously, this would never happen in the states. There were people of ALL ages, just head bobbin' along with the music...
We are going back to the festival tomorrow, but it is a different venue of events. We are hoping to find some fun at the Greek Glendy event, and then attend the BBQ at the Coale's house in the afternoon.
-That is, after I run about 150 miles tomorrow morning, to make up for today... :)
