pride

Today was the pride parade in sunny San Francisco :) I can't even begin to describe it, but I think that today is the day I officially fell in love with the city. I got down there and met Amy and somehow we muscled our way, over the course of an hour or so, to the front of the crowds to watch the parade... which lasted three and a half hours! It was so amazing.

There were so many different groups, floats, costumes, music... I really recommend that you just check out the albums of photos on facebook (I took 600 and weedled them down to just over 300 - sorry there are so many!) becuase they tell the story far better than I could. I'm just so sad because I accidentally had my camera on the wrong setting for taking movies, so they didn't end up being movies at all... which sucks because I was going to make a compilation video and now I have no video. Oh well - pictures are plenty!

I have never seen so many naked men, and nearly naked men, drag queens and the sort. There were two drag queens with me on the bus ride back home, and Amy and I posed for pictures with three old naked men. It was pretty brilliant. But the best part... is... that...

WE WERE TWENTY FEET AWAY FROM THE BACK STREET BOYS! They drove by in a car as part of the parade (see photos) and they were RIGHT THERE and we were RIGHT THERE and holy crapoly! They were playing later on but we opted out of staying because it was so crowded, and the busses were all messed up because of detours and I didn't really want to stay later down there so we just headed home. Their set was going to be super short anyway. But oh my gosh, they were RIGHT THERE. Okay. I'm done. I was more of an N'Sync fan anyway :P

It was an awesome day. I love this city. I love this town. I love the people. It's great.