Well tomorrow I am off to Spalshy Fen 2010 (the fairly famous South African music festival). And this must be about the 7th or 8th year I will be attending (one can't be sure, they all seem to blur into one) and I can not wait! I am so excited to slip into my old trusty gum boots, whip on a scarf, grab a bottle of old brown and head off to the mountains with the hippies. Oh the yearning I have to join the hippies in the dirty grass :) And only once a year, in the easter cold berg, I get to fulfill that longing. Leaving behind work, stress, and boring daily life and replacing it with the serene beauty of nature, friendly faces, love, laughter and music. I live for Splashy! I swear in a past life I was a long haired, hairy-legged, tree hugging, peace sign waving, rainbow child, hippie! So for the next 4 days and nights I will be in the mountains, sleeping an a tent, in freezing conditions, skipping in mud in my gum boots, waking up to the clearest blue skies in the morning and the darkest star scattered skies at night, breathing in the freshest air, walking hand in hand with the man I love at my side and the warm sun on my skin, drinking out of pure necessity to stay warm in the nights and simply for fun in the days, swimming in rivers and lounging on tufts of grass in the day, listening to music from rock and jazz to bongos and tambourines, eating the tastiest food from tiny little trailers served by bearded, tie-died old hippie men and barefooted, smiling hippie women, doing nothing except soaking in the sun, the earth, the forest, the music and the freedom of it all. Sigh...Bliss. So peace out my fellow tree huggers, I am off to open my eyes :) G (the hippie version)
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