Christmas Pageant & Diwali Extravaganza

Cooking may not be my forte, however, I can cook enough to get a decent meal on the table. I won't disagree, this time I had a very helpful helping hand. His name is none other than my good friend, Mr Smithson Sunny. We decided to take over the kitchen and make chappathi's and chicken curry for more than just a few people. More like 20 of them. Yey. And I have to agree it succeeded. But my day did not just start there. It started early in the morning.
I was going to get ready to go for the Christmas Pageant in Adelaide. This is supposed to be the show where everyone gathers into the city for a morning of fun as a large group of people welcome the christmas spirit into the city. Many of the things here, I disagreed with very strongly but none the less, I did make my way to this huge event. The main street in Adelaide was shut down for this programme and everyone that you could think of was there. Now for my Indian friends reading this blog, you'll find my explanation of the number of people that I saw quite ridiculous. Why? one might ask. Well, its simple; the number of people that lined the streets along the streets of Adelaide was supposed to be a large crowd. Now, i'm sure when I say there is a crowd, one should try to see T-Nagar during Diwali shopping season. That is what I call a crowd. This was more like T-Nagar at 9:00am in the morning. As the shops start to get opened on a low sale day. That is what you would feast your eyes to. However, there were many things that did appeal to my eyes. I was wondering how organised and orderly the crowd was. I have seen in many places the use of barricades to keep people off the road when such kind of event's take place. This was unique because, everyone simply lined up along the streets but stayed off the actual road. No one was pushing and shoving so as to get to the front, rather, everyone was simply trying to catch a higher spot. I saw people climbing trees and it reminded me of Zacchaeus who climbed the sycamore tree to spot Jesus on the road as he travelled down. The only difference was this time every one wanted to see the various floats as it passed down the road but more so, the santa clause that came up the end.
The Pageant consisted of about 90 plus floats that travelled along the city's main streets and various different expressions of christmas and festivities were portrayed in it. Each float had something significant to itself. From the police band, army band, to celtic bagpipes playing to the tune of Christmas; this was an extravaganza that the whole city turned up to see. I enjoyed every moment of it, however, My sights were more focused on what to do once the whole parade had finished and both Smith and myself had to get cooking. That was something I was not really anticipating. I have to understand that one cannot really prepare for the worst.
We decided that for the party, about 20 people would be present, and we thought chappati and chicken curry would be easiest option. And so we made a good 50 chappathi's I think. Once we were done, we packed and got ready to spend a good night full of food, music and lights. Yes, the diya's were all lit and a beautifully arranged. (I hope i can get the pictures to upload)
Exhausted and totally inept to do anything, I went home just as the clock struck 11pm and crashed for a wonderful night's sleep. I really needed it. I had to start with my portfolio and that was not something that was very pleasant for me; especially since I could not do a thing.
(Just so that everyone knows; I stopped writing anything in my blog because of this for the last 4 weeks. I'm really glad to be done with the portfolio)
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