Chinese and Indian Festivals in Victoria

Today I met with Xue and her husband Charles in order to check out two festivals that were supposed to start today in Victoria. At first we went to the opening ceremony of the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival. However, I wasn't too impressed by it - there were just a few Chinese people in traditional robes chanting something and painting the eyes of some dragon heads red.
Thus, we quickly decided to go on to the Indian MeLa Festival. On the way there, we passed some people giving out free subway sandwiches as a promotion and even though I am no subway fan, I never say no to free food. I'm still not a big subway fan - the free turkey sandwich I got was ok but I wouldn't have wanted to spend money on a sandwich like that.
There was a little more going on at the Indian Festival - at least there were a few booths to check out. Xue discovered a Henna tattoo booth and since she had always wanted to get one, she did just that. We spent some time deciding which tattoo might be best for her. Then, the artist quickly drew the fascinating pattern on Xue's hand and arm. After that, she really had to be careful not to touch anything or brush her arm anywhere since the Henna tattoo was very fragile.
Unfortunately, apart from the booths there wasn't much more going on here either. Apparently the show program was only supposed to start later in the afternoon and as it was still early and we didn't want to wait that long, we decided to walk to Beacon Hill Park instead.
We spent some time in the Beacon Hill Children's Farm with the goats. As Xue really wanted to see the goat stampede at 5:10 PM, we had a bit more than an hour to pass in the park. I was thirsty and just out of water. Consequently, we walked to the nearby Beacon Drive In. As I didn't want spent 2.50 CAD on just half a liter of water, I decided on a blue raspberry slushie. As it turned out, the slushie was too sweet for my taste but as it was nicely refreshing (it was a really hot day), I drank it anyway.
After seeing the goat stampede, we walked back Downtown. I still wanted to print some stuff at the library, thus we parted ways here. I arrived at the library just 10 minutes before its closing time, so I barely managed to print what I needed.
Afterwards, I went to check out the Indian Festival again. There were some people singing and a Zumba dance group but I wasn't too impressed by that. Therefore, I went home after a quick stop at the supermarket.