Aug 20, 2009

FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is not very often that I have such fire-filled weekends as this one. On Thursday and Friday night I was at a family reunion where we had a large marshmellow roasting fire. I'll combine those and call them fire #1. The second was when I was driving up the reunion after school on Friday and at the top of Parley's Summit traffic started to slow down. I began to grumble about traffic jams, how I'm the only decent driver on the road etc. when I saw a huge plum of black smoke. I immediately changed from grumbly to interested. I could tell something was on fire and one lane was blocked off so instead of changing to the faster of the 2 lanes, I stayed in the slow lane to have the best view possible. It paid off. I passed a camper that was being completely, absolutely toasted. I tried to get a picture when I drove past but that didn't work so I just held up my phone, pointed it to the back and got the picture (kind of small but you can see). So that was Fire #2. Fire #3 was definitely my favorite. I went to a Luau that on of the LDS frats was having and they had some firedancers come. I've seen firedancers before but these were my favorite. If you've ever seen the movie Hotrod, this reminded me of that. They started out with "The Final Countdown" playing and both of them twirling their fire batons. On was wearing flaming shorts, a flame headband and an eye patch. These guys were great to watch because they had about 3 moves they could do but kept dropping their batons. One guy actually caught his shorts on fire (yes, the flame shorts actually caught on fire). Maybe the best part of all though was when they poured lighter fluid all over the ground for effect and caught the wood backdrop on fire. They spent about 10 minutes after the show trying to put it out. I couldn't help but feel that I got my money's worth out of comic relief.



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