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Jun. 30th, 2008 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinlinI spent this weekend in Chicago, at Pride! It was so much fun!
Jamie and Alie came up to Chicago for the weekend. They picked up me and Allison, because we had volunteered to go with them. We then made our way into the city. We spent most of Saturday afternoon wandering around Michigan Ave. We had a surplus of food, given to us by Alie's mom, so Allison tried to be a good person and give some of it to the homeless people. She offered a box of Triscuits to a homeless man, but he turned her down! We ended up getting a hotel downtown for the night. It was a very nice room for the price. It even had a small kitchen. We were pleased.
Sunday morning we got up and checked out of the hotel. We had to check our luggage with the concierge. We didn't have any smaller bills to tip him with, so we gave him our pumpkin pie (that we didn't end up eating) as a tip. Lol. It was pretty amusing. Then we caught a taxi to Boystown. We spent some time just walking around, taking in all the interesting sights and rainbow of colors. We ended up going shopping at Gaymart, which I think is an awesome store name. It sold everything from T-shirts with funny gay sayings on them, to Doctor Who action figures. After that, it was time to find a spot to watch the parade from.
The parade was a lot of fun! We got a bunch of free stuff from it, like beads, stickers, rainbow bracelets, and condoms. At one point, the parade had to be stopped for around half an hour. It turned out that the float that was stuck in front of us was the Minibar float. This float consisted of more than a dozen cute gay guys, dancing around with each other, in nothing put pink undies. XD Eventually people started going up to the float asking for pictures with the guys, and some of them started dancing in the crowd. The float was playing a steady stream of music, so it turned into a mini dance party in the middle of the street. At one point the guys asked the crowd if we had any booze. It turned out that Jamie had some extra beer (none of the rest of our group were willing to drink any of it, because beer is icky), so we ran up and gave them the extra bottles. They were pleased and shared them amongst themselves. At this point it had started raining, so now we were dancing around in the rain. Unfortunately, with the pause in the parade, we had to leave the city before it was over. I enjoyed the weekend though. We decided that we want to go again next year.
Jamie and Alie came up to Chicago for the weekend. They picked up me and Allison, because we had volunteered to go with them. We then made our way into the city. We spent most of Saturday afternoon wandering around Michigan Ave. We had a surplus of food, given to us by Alie's mom, so Allison tried to be a good person and give some of it to the homeless people. She offered a box of Triscuits to a homeless man, but he turned her down! We ended up getting a hotel downtown for the night. It was a very nice room for the price. It even had a small kitchen. We were pleased.
Sunday morning we got up and checked out of the hotel. We had to check our luggage with the concierge. We didn't have any smaller bills to tip him with, so we gave him our pumpkin pie (that we didn't end up eating) as a tip. Lol. It was pretty amusing. Then we caught a taxi to Boystown. We spent some time just walking around, taking in all the interesting sights and rainbow of colors. We ended up going shopping at Gaymart, which I think is an awesome store name. It sold everything from T-shirts with funny gay sayings on them, to Doctor Who action figures. After that, it was time to find a spot to watch the parade from.
The parade was a lot of fun! We got a bunch of free stuff from it, like beads, stickers, rainbow bracelets, and condoms. At one point, the parade had to be stopped for around half an hour. It turned out that the float that was stuck in front of us was the Minibar float. This float consisted of more than a dozen cute gay guys, dancing around with each other, in nothing put pink undies. XD Eventually people started going up to the float asking for pictures with the guys, and some of them started dancing in the crowd. The float was playing a steady stream of music, so it turned into a mini dance party in the middle of the street. At one point the guys asked the crowd if we had any booze. It turned out that Jamie had some extra beer (none of the rest of our group were willing to drink any of it, because beer is icky), so we ran up and gave them the extra bottles. They were pleased and shared them amongst themselves. At this point it had started raining, so now we were dancing around in the rain. Unfortunately, with the pause in the parade, we had to leave the city before it was over. I enjoyed the weekend though. We decided that we want to go again next year.
