Monday Happies: Guelph Veg Fest, Vegan Pizza, and Sea Shepherd!

This weekend reminded me how incredibly awesome the world is! Saturday I spent the day with a friend that I had not seen in ages. She has been living in the UK working as a teacher for the last couple years and is home for a few months as she waits for her visa to be renewed. We went out for sushi (a tradition that got us through many stressful days during our undergrads) and ate way too much (as is expected when you opt for all-you-can-eat).

Saturday night VOMD and I had a nice quiet night and watched Hotel Transylvania - which is one of my favourite  animated movies of recent years. Watch it. It will make you heart go aww.

Sunday, though, was the cherry on top of an amazing weekend. We went to VegFest Guelph, and having missed the one in Toronto, we were all over the vegan food, and stocked our pockets full of stickers. The highlights of the event for me were: 1) Piebird Vegan Farmstay peeps were there! It made us feel all nostalgic for North Bay; 2) We bought some amazing vegan pizzas from a local bakery; 3) I had an amazing conversation with a man from Sea Shepherd and have decided that I 100% want to support their organization more and become a volunteer; 4) we ate some amazing vegan Pakoras; 5) we  met an excellent eccentric man with a pigeon friend who suggested I listen to an album by the kinks and it is actually incredibly amazing. We also had a great conversation about our culture's obsessive need to photograph everyone and everything we see, as means either to prove that we are interesting to others, or to convince ourselves that we have had interesting experiences. Are photographs false memories?

All in all, it was a pretty great day.

I'll leave you with some Kink's lyrics to stew on:

"People take pictures of each other,

Just to prove that they really existed,

Just to prove that they really existed.

People take pictures of each other,

And the moment to last them for ever,

Of the time when they mattered to someone".

Happy Monday!

-J