Birthday, fireworks and art

Had a lovely, if somewhat small birthday party yesterday. Only three people came, but it's not really about quantity that much... we drank a bottle of champagne, ate chocolate coated strawberries from Godiva and ate some delicious food. I was even given presents (ok, I knew it was coming as Laura by accident sent one of the group gift emails to me) - Laura has picked out a new tea pot and mugs for me which were lovely... my collection now stands at 13 teapots. I'm generally not too thrilled about getting teapots as presents because other people's opinion on what's good is different to mine (and it is my collection after all), but I've presented my collection to Laura and she knows what I value - so she picked very well.

Around 8 pm we went to the beach - the weather was cloudy so there weren't that many people for the Celebration of Lights, but more and more people came as the time got closer to 10. Yesterday's competitor was China, last year's winner, and it just might have been the best firework I've ever seen. Last year they just went for big - the music was there but there wasn't really that much choreography involved with it... this year the music was absolutely beautifully guiding this most amazing firework display. The different combination of colours, shapes and sizes - how they used the whole sky as a canvas, some fireworks were low, some middle, some oh so high... And the finish was a golden sky, the biggest golden sparkling fireworks that I've ever seen. Absolutely stunning.

Today I spent the whole morning on Skype with Chu... only two weeks and she'll be here, I can't wait. After that I ran down to Yaletown where my friend Robert had few pieces of art on display in a Pride in Art exhibition that's part of the Pride celebrations currently going on in Vancouver. His works were very emotionally loaded - raw, provocative and almost pornographic. Powerful stuff, and I wish he would take more pride in his art... he's so shy and modest about it all.

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