This weekend was "Pride 2008" in Salt Lake. The festival has really grown over the past few years, it's now the second largest parade, after the 24th of July Pioneer Parade, in Utah.
This float came from Twin Falls, Idaho, Lance's home town. Lance's dad said that before it was aloud to be in Twin's "Western Days Festival" all the rainbows had to be removed as well as all the words. They were permitted to put a big "?" to hide the scandalous words "We Support Human Rights."
By the way, Ralph Becker and the entire Salt Lake City Council were the Grand Marshalls this year.
This was the most unique float I've ever seen. I think it had something to do with "Drag Queen's in Space." We're pretty sure it won't be in the Pioneer Parade, or any other parade in Utah.
The festivities after the parade were at the City/County Building, my favorite building in Utah.
Lance and I helped with the set-up on Friday. We were assigned to help set-up the tables and chairs for the 150 exhibitors (not to be confused with exhibitionists.) When we were done with that we were assigned to put up the signs like the one behind Lance. Afterwards Lance remembered he wasn't supposed to do any exercise or lift anything over ten pounds for ten days after his leg operation. It was day nine so hopefully he will be okay.
Casey and the girls missed the parade but at least they came for the festival after. Denice didn't come because she thought she had more important things to do :(
Victoria had a star painted on her face.
Christina was turned into a cheetah.
By the way, a couple of days ago Mom said, "How long do you plan on keeping that beard? It's got an awful lot of white in it!"
For those of you who haven't met her, this is Vanessa, Kelly's girlfriend. She's got a pretty big appetite!
Vanessa, Victoria, Christina and Kelly as the day was winding down. Lance left to fix dinner for his parents, I stayed to help take everything down. There were about 500 volunteers who helped over the three day weekend so it all went quite smoothly. We'll see you all there next year! (Yeah, Right! When Drag Queens can fly!)
3 comments:
That looked like quite the event. I wonder what Denice had to do that was better than that? I wish I could've seen all the floats! The drag queen one sounds like it would've been pretty entertaining to see!
I'm dying for some festival food after seeing Vanessa's chow. Yum.
Hey..when they covered this story on the news the other night, I wondered if you guys were there! I kept watching for you in the parade, but didn't see you! Looks like a bunch of fun!
GrandMA Woody says, "Yes,I saw it on the news, but not you! Glad you had a fun time." love, Jane
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