Last night was the annual Bayside Christmas Carols at Dendy Park where about 20,000 locals congregate for a mass picnic, watch some of the local schools and community musical groups sing or play a Christmas carol or two and end the night with a fantastic display of fireworks.
Usually it's a night where parents sit and drink a glass of wine or a bottle of beer, relax and talk about the world, and the kids disappear, find their friends and run around with glow sticks and bracelets, flashing Santas and whirling pinwheels and you can never find them unless they want some money for Mr Whippy ice-cream or find some other useless thing to spend money on.
I met up with a friend of a friend last night, who I'd met a couple of times before. She's American, but been living in Melbourne for about 15 years. She was sitting with a couple of friends, another American from New York, a lady who works at the local pool and another lady who was a mum from the same school as the other three. Then another lady showed up... a lady I'd met at another friend's house at New Years Eve last year (a very wild New Years Eve) where unspeakable things happened and we chatted about our mutual friend, and discovered that the lady from the local pool knew our friend. It's quite scary how small the world is!
Anyway, as the night wound up with fireworks, my boys and I sat cuddled up together watching the brilliant light display as the girls chatted behind us. It was a nice night where the weather reached 29 degrees during the day, so it was a beautiful night to be sitting under the stars with a few thousand local friends! :)
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