Bike and Bubbles!
So yesterday (Saturday) was fully hectic. The day started off with me getting up at 7am and heading downtown for a private salsa lesson due to start at 9am. Silly me had assumed the lesson was going to be at the same venue where I’ve started level 4 salsa lessons on Wednesday nights when in fact the private lesson was to be held a few blocks away at a different studio! I made it eventually and had a great 60 mins of instruction, correcting my dancing, and learning some moves that I had missed out on when I was in Sydney.
Following the lesson I headed to Dufferin Mall to pick up my new bike. Only thing was that I arrived an hour and a half early so I had time to kill. I wasn’t feeling too crash hot after my lack of sleep from the night before so I headed to a nearby park and chilled on a bench (tried to sleep but couldn’t so I just lay there with my mp3 player on) for thirty or so minutes before heading back to the mall and grabbing myself a Subway foot long sandwich for lunch. At 12:30pm I picked up my bike from Toys’R'Us ($99 special yay!) and began cycling towards Yonge St when I came upon a bike store. I stopped and purchased myself a $60 lock (funny how the lock costs nearly more than the bike itself! LOL). The dude at the store told me how new bikes were prone to theft in Toronto so getting myself a lock was a good idea. It was interesting to hear that as Neesa had also had her bike stolen previously (within a week of buying her first bike last summer in TO).
Nearly two hours later I had cycled through Little Italy where the Taste of Little Italy festival was happening (the aromas of the food there were divine!), little Chinatown (Gerrard St E), Little India and then The Beaches before finally making it to my place. Talk about travelling through different neighbourhoods! The diversity here in Toronto is definitely a big plus for this city.
I didn’t have much time to rest though as an hour later I was on a street car headed downtown yet again. This time I was on my way to Harbourfront Centre for Luminat’eau, Harbourfront Centre’s three-day event during the larger Luminato festival. I went there specifically to meet up with Neesa and co. for newmindspace’s Bubble Battle. I was even armed with a $10 battery operated bubble gun from Toys’R'Us!
I arrived at Harbourfront Centre just on time to catch the initial bubbles being fired. Soon there were bubbles everywhere. It was fantastic! I juggled taking shots with firing my own gun, and trying to keep the soapy bubbles away from my camera lens. It was a whole lot of bubbly fun!
Neesa and Nadja soon appeared with some wicked face paint that they’d had done on them for free somewhere close by (apparently by makeup artists who had done work for Cirque Du Soleil), and soon the Couch Surfers started to appear.
The next few hours were a frenzy of $1 veggie wraps, churritos (“churrrrrrr-itos” as Natalia educated Garry), fire shows, lion dancing, market stalls with funky hats, glasses and all sorts, and general chaos for a large festival such as this. I ended up staying until 10pm (I had lost everybody by this point) when I decided to call it a night.
Here are my pics from the event:
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