Exteme Mexican!

Extreme enthusiasm Day - I have to admit that it was pretty difficult to get enthusiastic at all never mind in an extreme manner. Getting up at 4.30am didn't fill me with enthusiasm and nor did the 4.25 hour train and taxi journey to Ryton, the day itself went well but then the 4.5 hour car journey back on the hottest day of the year pretty much cancelled that out!

Having said that...if it hadn't been for my late return I may well have missed the incredible lightening display we had that night (I think it was equally as good as the Northern lights we saw in March), the whole sky was lighting up, with occasional forks flashing through in places, every few seconds for about an hour. Because of the clouds the light was coming through in different shades of pinks, blues and oranges all over the place - beautiful it was! There was no rain or thunder (although I understand places nearby had golf ball sized hailstones!) which just added to the other-worldly feel of it and, as someone who has a storm chasing experience listed on their bucker list, I absolutely loved it and was extremely enthusiastic!

Start a Mexican wave Day -

Mexican wave

noun

noun: Mexican wave; plural noun: Mexican waves

- an effect resembling a moving wave produced by successive sections of the crowd in a stadium standing up, raising their arms, lowering them, and sitting down again.

 Origin

1980s: so named because of the repeated practice of the movement at the 1986 soccer World Cup finals in Mexico City.

I didn't start one but have had a fabulous idea for an Extreme Mexican later in the year so watch this space...