decidedlyodd

Today was the first big day of official pride activities. Considering I didn’t go to bed until around 3:30am or so the night before, I had to get up pretty early. I’d signed up to volunteer to work the GLEAM table up at Volunteer Park from 11-1. There was an all day music festival going on which GLEAM helped sponsor. When I got there, it was pretty vacant and most of the time was spent just getting everything setup.

I did catch a bit of the first musical act before walking down to the Seattle Center which was farther than I thought. It was a gorgeous day though as evidenced by this shot of Lake Union:

Upon arriving at the Seattle Center, I came in from the northwest side of things. There were all these families and whatnot at the carnival. At first I thought I was in the wrong place, but it turned out that there was just a ton of stuff going on at the Seattle Center which is a very large complex. Eventually I did find the Outventures booth. It was much more busy down there than up at the park. As you might imagine there were a lot of rainbow flags:

I stuck around until closing time (about 6pm) before grabbing a beer with Don and his friends. Eventually, we took the bus back to his place where we met John to go to a party up on Beacon Hill. We stuck around there for a while before leaving to catch the showing of Victor/Victoria outside at Volunteer Park. By the time we got there, the movie had already started, but it was still really close to the beginning. The movie was pretty entertaining and it was a nice night to be watching a movie outside on the lawn.

Now, I’m back home getting ready to go to bed. Tomorrow, I need to get up early to line up for the big parade through downtown. After the parade, there will be yet more dancing and drinking, so I should save my energy tonight.