Under the shining...

Well...

A quick entry tonight, to be fleshed out, with photos, on the morrow...

Xander and I went to Luminara tonight - Festival of Lights here in Victoria, with a great sense of community and togetherness that doesn't happen all that often. It was last minute, so I whipped up a pop bottle lantern with him (yay for that creative side!), and bought a small oil lantern at the hardware store that I filled with teeny Christmas lights (battery operated) to give the impression of fireflies. We had many glo-sticks, a heaping huge amount of body glitter (all from Lush, and its amazing stuff!) - its one of the only chances I have each year to truly go wild with it - I do use a subtle gold regularly, but this was hot pink (small particles) and bright, vibrant blue and green (large pieces of glitter). Everywhere. And now that I'm home and readying for bed, it truly is EVERYWHERE, including many places I have no idea how it migrate to. But soooo worth it.

Anyways, we sat and watched drummers, improvisational dancers and musicians, flashlight dancers, some comedy stuff. Hung wishes on a dragon of lights. Ate a huge amount of cotton candy - and went out for dessert at one of our regular haunts at 11:00 pm. Fabulous evening, and I'll add photos when I can.

We're off camping for a week...I have a shift at Lush (kids party for any and all kids and I only just discovered I'm to be providing entertainment whilst the parents shop). I'm not off till 5:00, and we were to head off tomorrow night -the campsite is about 1 1/2 - 2 hours away. I think I'll plan on leaving Monday morning instead...though I did want to get set up before my best pal arrived so she wouldn't feel the need to do anything but put her feet up and relax. So we'll see - maybe I'll get everything done...

And on that note, it's off to bed for me!