Wow, now that my poor lil’ head has cleared, the fog has lifted and my blood shot eyes can  focus I can let you all know how the foot stompin’ party went.

The 8th annual  Cannabis Cup was held in Belleville Ontario this year and a good  time was had by all.  The scene was calm, safe and held in a location that was conducive to a chill vibe. Green Harvest arrived in their luxurious Camper, cruising in all the way from TO. We live in Vancouver but flew out for this mellow yet fun event.

On the Friday at 5 am we saw Ron and the boys preparing the pig that was to be roasted ( this was not a vegan event after all- it is for the hardcore- in the know good time partiers). Boy was it huge-almost damn near as big as a  grown woman- and the spit it went on was about 6 feet long and the barbecue on wheels was one to rival any cooking program on food network.

The food was phenomenal, grease dripping down my chin and eating with our hands like civilized barbarians.

The salads and bread that accompanied the meal was superfluous. Outstanding work done by all. When we all finished eating we sat around the fire pit listening to the live and DJ music , a nice cool vibe and we all just toked,chilled and digested our amazing meal.

Saturday morning found the DJ music a bit more upbeat to greet the morning and we found Ron once again at the cooking station. He was preparing  his world renowned special “mushroom” omelettes for the crowd and as you can imagine the day floated by in a magic wonderland as we go more and more baked.

During the day there was hash demos by Green Harvest. We took 1lb of outdoor shake and tumbled it in our PollenMaster ( formerly Pollinator) dry tumbler system that is lightweight and durable. It harvests the best keif. We let it tumble for 10 mins and collected  1/4 OZ of the cream of the crop and then continued to tumble the same material for 1/2 an hour longer to get the same amount again. So in all 1/2 OZ of kief, dry and ready to smoke. We refroze this material and threw it into our  BubbleMaster (formerly Bubbleator) ice and water system- you can see it on the ground as the camping table was too shaky to hold it- and did what we do. We ended up with about 1/2 OZ  of wet bubblehash retreived from our 70 & 38 IceMaster bags ( formerly Iceolator) .  We are grateful to Brian from Ottawa for his assistance in these demos and the great photos that you see here.

We listened to music all day and had a great late lunch of steak and veggie kebobs as well as succulent steak that  melted in your mouth like butter.

Of course Vicky kept us all hydrated with yummy fruit all weekend long. Viva Vickey and her common sense.

On Saturday afternoon the rains storms  started (leaving some of us wondering  if we were on the wet coast rather than Ontario. It forced  us all to gather under the tents and shelters put up for the event. We chatted, commiserated, tried and evaluated our samples and just generally had a trippin’  time.

This brings us to Saturday night. We had a another impressive meal of  bbq chicken breast, salads and bread. The boys just grabbed the meat off the barby and mowed down. True camping style. The party carried on as they do with music, laughs and some great ( almost hallucinogenic ) smoke going around. The blunts were rolling and we were passing them on well into the night.

Aaarrgghh Sunday morning all ready. Sloth like we all gathered for left over pig and chit chat. Green Harvest made hash until 3 pm due to the locals getting wind and bringing their trim down for us to process. We happily obliged.

We did not want to go home with anything that might get Stephen Harper’s nickers in a twist so gave away the extra stash we had to those brave souls that needed it most.

Into our camper we crawled and back on the road again to TO to catch our plane home just in time to see our upstanding citizens turn into hooligans with yet another riot in Vancouver.

Why can’t we all just get along. Ask those at the cup- no riots , no drama , no worries just a good time had by all.

Keep an eye out for information regarding next years outdoor event, the 2012 Canadian Cannabis Cup in Belleville Ontario.