ode to a perfect day

yesterday was a perfect day.

it started with some great friends, erin and lydia, and a pancake breakfast at open space gallery. but not your average run of the mill pancake breakfast. a pancake breakfast featuring FANTASTICO! aka, the great giffoni, a very entertaining magician who pulled a rabbit out of the hat, literally. he also pulled some radishes and lemons out of cups and stabbed the correct playing card while blind folded. WOW! he was all around great. maybe lydia will post some of the photos.

we then ventured out to market square where we watched (from the rafters) 50 tubas gathered to play christmas carols.









i really enjoyed it! you might expect 50 tubas to sound a little 00hm-paaa-ish, but the music was beautiful. their hats said tuba christmas.we then meandered back to erin's to make angel food cake. any day that involves baking a cake is fabulous in my books. even if that cake is very persnickety and erin is hovering over you, making you nervous.









the cake has to cool upside down in it's pan on a bottle. craziness! and then of course you have to smother the delicate, fluffy goodness in chocolate icing. YUM!

i then wandered from erin's towards my bus stop thinking of what a wonderful day i had had. my bus was supposed to be at my stop within minutes, everything was dandy. and then...DUN DUN DUN...10 police cars with sirens come wizzing down yates street. i'm thinking someone has been murdered. the police start stopping at intervals down the street and i'm thinking someone has been murder right around the corner from where i'm standing. but then, off in the distance, i see terribly bright lights. so many terribly bright lights. and then the first of many colourfully decorated, huge trucks started parading by me. 20 minutes of lit up trucks, it was so great! i'm sorry for the blurry picture, my camera phone was all i had.yesterday was a perfect day.