I decided to jump on a bus to go into the city this afternoon to sit at a cafe and do some blogging and reading. The last time I did this the Civic area was almost completely dead but for some reason the whole place was alive.
Of course, as the title of this post indicates the reason was the Canberra Skyfire event which is basically a big fireworks display that they hold over Lake Burley Griffin. So rather than heading directly home I decided to swing past the lake to see the display.
The place was completely packed but people were being well behaved for the most part. The queues for the port-a-loo’s were something to behold, only to be out done by the queues to the food stalls – I wonder whether there was some kind of correlation here.
I managed to find a spot about two metres from the waters edge by the time the fireworks started. The fireworks themselves were fantastic but the real entertainment was the things I overheard during the course of the event.
- “Dude, I am so glad I had a joint before I watched this!”
- “Oh my god, that one made me crap my pants!”
- “Do you think the fireworks would be hot to touch?”
- “Look at that geek typing on his laptop!”
In my defence, the person was the same one that admitted to crapping his pants so he shouldn’t be quite so smug.