Low-key weekend

Today we were supposed to go on a day trip with V. We wanted to experience Canada Day celebrations on a smaller scale in a smaller town and meet some friends. As much as we love the festivities around this day, I find it’s way too overcrowded and messy on Parliament Hill, here in the capital. And I’m not doing “good” in crowds. I think I picked up this phobia while living in Moscow – overcrowded spaces scare the heck out of me, I get claustrophobic, can’t breath and so on. So while I love Ottawa’s downtown on a normal day, during the celebrations I’d rather go someplace else.
But V had to work today and we cancelled our trip. Whole lot of disappointment, as you can imagine, I was so looking forward to getting out of the city, but instead, I‘m dealing with bare truth of our life these days – business comes first.
So lots of laundry and gardening for me instead.

P.S. We removed the wasps nest the other day. I just went to the store and bought some poisonous foam that worked very effectively and I got what I wanted: free of wasps shed. And I couldn’t possibly feel worse about it: something so full of life and growing got destroyed in a split second and is now hanging empty and lifeless. In moments like this, I wonder if nature and humans can ever harmlessly co-exist.