My Fabulous Gay Parade!

A busy weekend, saturday we had a wine and cheese in the evening..of course we had to spend the whole day cleaning, Kim did most of the cooking and she definetly outdid herself. Some of the highlights were various homemade phylo pastry appetizers, crepes, and a pavlova! YUM!
A fair number of work people had weddings to attend and couldn't make it, it was kinda small and intimate...but a fun time had by all. With lots of yummy wine, including:
Cono Sur a Pinot Noir from Chile, an excellent summer wine.
Alexandra and Neil brought Ikka...Amy, Jaggy, and Peter showed up as well. And we can't forget Lil.
Saturday night, after everyone left Amy said there was a concert downstairs in the Gay Village...just one block down.
So we wandered up and down church for abit, listen to several stages and mostly people watching...at least it was mostly the good looking guys, without any flab that decided to wear only small amounts of leather.
I had an interesting encounter with a person wearing a very realisitc animal costume, including tail and full head mask. Being part of the pride celebrations it reminded me of the episode in CSI with "furries".

Sunday was the parade. A hot and sticky day, but lots of people still made it out. The people at the front of the parade were great, dancing and laughing..many drag queens, water guns, and built shirtless guys. But towards then end, waiting to go on in the hot weather, were the more scary groups, old men wearing only a sock...shudder!
The water guns were the best part, even the police officers were happy to be soaked. We passed on the expensive, crappy icecream and found giant freezies for 50c...those brought back memories...the best way to cool off.