Ruins, Rain, Ruins

Slide show! And the theme tonight? Ruins, Rain And More Ruins.

The first is some of the ruins at Ephesus, just outside of Selcuk. This was a whole ancient city in really good shape (given that it is dated at about 2,000 BC), with a stadium for 10,000, roads and paths, and columns and all manner of ruiny stuff. Wandered around for half a day picturing myself wearing a toga and commanding my minions to do miniony stuff. The figure in the white toga... white Tshirt is me looking up at the library facade going faaaaarck.

Next... bugger, they're in the wrong order. There was a brief shower on the second day at Soulclipse and after my prophetic announcement that it was just a light shower that would blow over, the whole site got dumped on with more rain than I think I've ever seen in one hour. The grounds became a swamp, tents were flooded... ours was okay in spite of the water being several centimetres up the fly. It had hailed so the water was freezing on bare feet. Had this exchange with a random punter just outside our tent:

Punter: FARCK MAAAAN!!! HOW COLD ARE YOUR FEET?
Me: FUCKING COLD! LIKE, THEY'RE THE COLDEST THINGS EVER!
Punter: FUGGIN' COLD HUH? HUH?
Me: FREEZING!
Punter: I CAN'T FEEL MY FEET, MAN!
Me: ME NEITHER! THINK I'M WALKING ON STUMPS!
Punter: WOOOO HOOOO!
Me: YEEEEAAAHH!

Not really sure what that was about, but we were pretty excited about how cold our feet were.

Then the stage collapsed. Well it collapsed during the downpour. I like this one because of the cute little sign. Hope you can read it. Several days later the stage had been rebuilt and the sound system was awesome. Pretty impressive going by The Indigo Kids. Sure, it shouldn't have gone down in the first place, but look at that pile of scrap. You wouldn't think they could have got it back up, but they did.