Uneventful

Uneventful is as uneventful does. Today’s demonstration was a bit boring. To say the least. We went, hoped for some fire works, some nice speeches or music, but it was a bland affair. Speakers were incomprehensible, which is probably just as well, as I don’t think they have anything new to say. We couldn’t really see who was speaking anyway. Where were the big screens? Saad Hariri spoke, but I couldn’t understand nor see him either.
But we showed up, and I think that this was all that mattered. Crowd estimations were between ‘hundreds of thousands’ and ‘500,000’ to one million, which means we probably didn’t beat Hezbollah this time. We took the dog, one of my lesser intelligent decisions in a while. I must have heard them all; ‘Hey look, there’s Rustom Ghazali’, or “Why did you bring Basjaar el Assad to the demonstration’? He was called every pro-Syrian name in the book. Dog didn’t mind. One my way back I finally made a picture of that third big tree (that I know of) in Beirut; this is the one near the AUB Medical Gate. Now I've got them all three.

Tree # 1: Basta (near the iron bridge). #2: AUB Medical Gate. Tree 3: Gemayze (near the LF HQ)