Monday, 4 August 2014

Another pride year...

So we went down to the pride parade this year, saw some sights.  Some I have been getting used to, first pride I was the sore thumb standing in the corner with his arms crossed. Felt very uncomfortable  at these establishments we went into. I has all sorts of questions. What's with the flamboyant mannerisms etc... But like all things, my inhibitions went out the windows as soon as alcohol entered my blood stream, the drinker I got the more I didn't care.
Last year was a little better, another year growth, did something I shouldn't share on cable TV. Nothing to life altering or anything, just a check mark on life's list.  Nothing really fazed me too much, still though, small town kid hanging around gay people... They are just people, get over it.
Yesterday, all good went to the pride parade, took some photos of floats or anything out of the ordinary... Below are some shots of the parade,
     

         








We even seen some political figures there was Elizabeth May,  the head of the Green Party of Canada
and also Justin Trudeau, head of the Federal Liberal Party of Canada, 
   
 

After the parade we ended up walking to Davie Street, where we met up with a guy we know named Kymo and his friend. We know him through a mutual friend Brandi. He lives in Edmonton, we then went to a bar called 1181 where we proceeded to eat beer, we were going for a bite to eat and ended up there. Its a gay bar, chalked full of dudes priding it up... It's interesting when a dude starts to chat me up...
"So, who are you here with?" Random dude says to me,
  "My wife, she's right over there..." I reply.
"Oh..." Dude says with sad look on his face,
  "yep, sorry 'bout that" I said

We shared a laugh, well I laughed anyways, and he's gone.
That happened a few times, tried to take a couple photos from inside the bar, none turned out too good, mostly blurry.  And me and the wife at 1181 half-cut around the time of that photo.
   
After that experience we went to Moxies across the street and ate some dinner, got home around 9pm, and went to bed cause tomorrow we were going on a crabbing adventure to Belcarra with Keri and Oliver



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