I can't believe I'm up writing this right now. Unless you count passing out on the train back, I've been awake for 26 hours now. When you can't feel your body, it seems longer!
Just got back from Summer Solstice at Stonehenge. We arrived around midnight last night to see the rocks backlit with blue light and surrounded by about 20,000 revelers. This included the Druids and other pagans who worship on the Solstice (which is by the way, the longest and supposedly happiest day of the year). The rest of the crowd were hippies... just there for the hallucinogenic substance abuse party.
One guy approached me, saying I looked tired. I said I was just really cold. "Want some Coke?" he offered, pulling a tidy little bag out of a tin. I guess I wasn't surprised, I've just never actually seen it before. Is that the typical response to someone being cold???
Another guy with glow-teeth asked us what contraband we were using. Just the stuff we can smell...
It was neat to see the people who were really passionate about being there - people drumming and dancing and generally celebrating. When the sun rose at 5 there were bagpipes and cheers and screams. The rounds of cheers actually happened a few times, because no one was exactly sure when the sun was rising (damn fog!)
3 comments:
Don't know what DARE is, but I'm glad you went!
It must have been very surreal, what with the lack of sleep, natural beauty, and "colorful" characters!
Truly once in a lifetime experience!
Jenni:
Looks like your London experience has had "lots" of things to put in your memory log!! Glad to hear your are really getting "with it" and taking in all the "culture" in that part of the world! Just return to us the same sweet Jenni we love! By the way, Katy was determined to call you the othehr day and say she wanted to be your Flower Girl someday====
Love you, Gramma Hanley
dad says,
get some sleep girl! you are starting to have drew 's hours. must have been an event i would like to have taken in just to see the environment of people.
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