Happy Pride
Posted by lynnontop on June 28, 2009
Pride 2009.
We took a cab to Saturday’s Dyke events, to preserve S’s energy for the rest of the day. Met up with some friends, walked with the Dyke March for a bit (which is one of the things that makes the Saturday superior to the Sunday), then went to the 519 beer garden. Where once the beer garden was a place you could sit on the grass, hang out with friends, meet people you hadn’t seen in a while… this year it was, basically, taken up entirely by people in serpentine lines queuing up to buy beer. After a couple of hours (one of which I’d swear was spent entirely in line), we left and headed for nearby Local 4 – tasty food, good service, reasonable prices and we didn’t have to wait to get in. We caught up with some friends to eat some gelato and listen to some music, then headed home. Fairly early. Apparently S’s pregnancy is affecting us both – she gets tired quickly and I get “sympathy tired” . or as I tell her, it’s like I’ve been pregnant for years, and now she gets to better understand what it feels like to be me.
The 55 SPF Hawaiian Tropic spray-on sunblock worked well to protect the expanse of base skin I exposed to the glaring sun. To my profound disappointment, however, it stained my new, stylin’ and oh so comfortable shorts . At first it was just a little bit of yellow at the waistband, so I threw the shorts in the wash – but when I took them out, the stain came through everywhere the sunscreen touched the shorts. The pockets where I put my hands, the waistband, the bottom of the legs. All stained orange. Hawaiin Tropic + Diesel = $70 poorer. Thank god I bought them at Winners instead of paying full price. But still…
Today it’s Sunday, and we’ve decided to stay home instead of watch the parade (although we have seen a bit of it on CP24). Turns out it was a good decisions since it has been raining a bit today. Typically we don’t get rain on Pride – because we are the chosen people. But at least the benefit to light rain is you don’t have to find someone with a supersoaker to cool you off. And taking the day off from the festivitis allows S’s feet to recover, us to watch Harry Potter on DVD and try to take the stains out of my shorts (so far, in vain).
Note: Vinegar and Didi Seven seems to be doing the trick. Woo! Almost stain free – I’ll give it another go after work.
