Two posts in two days?!? That's a record!

So I didn’t post for the entire month of July… sorry guys. It’s been a totally crazy summer. I have been away for the majority of the summer, but I only have two more trips planned before school starts.

I spent a week in Sparwood BC at an Irish Family Reunion where I met third cousins from Louisiana that I didn’t know I had. I thought that only happened in movies, but I really do have distant relatives from down south. It was a typical BC holiday week with white water rafting, hiking every day, cliff diving (which I am now addicted too.. but kind of hard to do in Saskatoon).

After my first trip to BC I came home to work for three days, do lots of laundry, and I was off to BC again. This time I was off to visit two good friends, Jessica and Mike, which I went to The Gambia with. It was totally worth the total of 34 hours of driving by myself. After this trip I am in serious danger of becoming a typical Saskatchewanite and move to BC as soon as I graduate. That was another very busy week of meeting new people, camping, hiking up mountains, museums, being an insomniac for the sake of art : ). It was an amazing trip because when I had that much time to think in the car, plus being in a totally new environment I got so much perspective on life.

So after a quick road trip to Calgary this weekend with Chadly I am back in Saskatoon to stay… until the last week in August, but that is two whole weeks of solid Saskatoon time : )

For the CPC people, it’s only thirty days till school is back….. I hope you all have had a crazy good summer.

Kicked out of a freak fest...

Saskatoon each year has a big street festival Called the Fringe. It’s aptly named because the people who perform, busk and sell stuff are usually the weird people that are the ‘fringe of society’. I love it. I usually busk, and have a great time running in to old friends, making a couple bucks, and of course playing music. It sounds like a perfect combination, and it usually is…. Until this year.

Last night we got our passes and finally started playing at about 9:30. We had made barely any money and it was just about time to shut down. At ten people started watching us ( Steve David and I) so we continued playing and made a couple dollars. Usually the fringe is totally flexible, in other years I had stayed an hour late and it was no trouble at all. But this year an angry forty something guy walked up to us mid song and took Steve’s pass. He grabbed it from Steve with no explanation except that we were to pick it up tomorrow. That was fine, we had fun and we thought that nothing was wrong…until today.
Apparently the display of anarchist and hippies is REALLY organized this year, and we got yelled at and kicked of the street for playing a little too late last night. What happened to ‘stick it to the man’?!? The hippies ARE the man now.
Anyway we were told to leave. Tomorrow we night be able to get our busking license back but I am still confused. A world where the fringe is uptight and rude… it’s just wrong.