My first PRIDE
Jun. 24th, 2007 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
locus_ofcontroWOW... what a huge crowd. I could not believe the numbers of people.
I parked up at York Mills and took the subway straight down Younge St. to Wellesley which put me right near the hostess's home for the day.
I finally met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mama_de_rose and her kidlet face to face. I had hoped the two 5 yr olds would hit it off but there was a language and interests barrier apparantly. K spent a fair portion of the day watching "TREEHOUSE" and only looking at the parade if I called her attention to something cool or beautiful, until towards the end when she snuggled on my lap and watched for curgoth.
mama_de_rose's little one was absolutely the opposite, leaning as far as she could out the window, waving her rainbow flag and singing gospel songs!!! It was adorable.
I put many LJ names to faces and truly felt comfortable hanging out with people I'd never met before. It was so very neat.
Afterwards, K & I headed through the chaos that was Church St. to connect with the RANDOM QUEER's crew. A few minutes hanging and K was starting to deteriorate just as the crew were heading back into the chaos. Initially intending to walk withcurgoth and the stunningly RED neeuqdrazil, I soon spotted a sushi place and decided that feeding the child was of vital importance. She ate VERY well!!!
We then wandered back up Church to Wellesley and climbed back on the subway to collect our car. K fell asleep in short order and napped all the way home.
I did a drive by of my clients home (in Guelph) enroute to ensure that there was indeed a bin and stuff in it. *hurray*
I'm pleasantly tired. Motivated to participate and just lose myself in the throngs of people next year... People watching, being "compersive (is that a word)!! and enjoying the sense of comraderie I witnessed today is something that I would thoroughly enjoy.
What a truly wonderful experience. Thank you to all who helped put me at ease and encouraged me to come!
I parked up at York Mills and took the subway straight down Younge St. to Wellesley which put me right near the hostess's home for the day.
I finally met
mama_de_rose and her kidlet face to face. I had hoped the two 5 yr olds would hit it off but there was a language and interests barrier apparantly. K spent a fair portion of the day watching "TREEHOUSE" and only looking at the parade if I called her attention to something cool or beautiful, until towards the end when she snuggled on my lap and watched for curgoth.mama_de_rose's little one was absolutely the opposite, leaning as far as she could out the window, waving her rainbow flag and singing gospel songs!!! It was adorable.I put many LJ names to faces and truly felt comfortable hanging out with people I'd never met before. It was so very neat.
Afterwards, K & I headed through the chaos that was Church St. to connect with the RANDOM QUEER's crew. A few minutes hanging and K was starting to deteriorate just as the crew were heading back into the chaos. Initially intending to walk with
curgoth and the stunningly RED neeuqdrazil, I soon spotted a sushi place and decided that feeding the child was of vital importance. She ate VERY well!!!We then wandered back up Church to Wellesley and climbed back on the subway to collect our car. K fell asleep in short order and napped all the way home.
I did a drive by of my clients home (in Guelph) enroute to ensure that there was indeed a bin and stuff in it. *hurray*
I'm pleasantly tired. Motivated to participate and just lose myself in the throngs of people next year... People watching, being "compersive (is that a word)!! and enjoying the sense of comraderie I witnessed today is something that I would thoroughly enjoy.
What a truly wonderful experience. Thank you to all who helped put me at ease and encouraged me to come!
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Date: 2007-06-25 02:09 pm (UTC)FYI, I only use my LJ acct to read my friends' journals, but I don't post to it anymore. I do have 2 blogs with RSS feeds:
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Cooking blog
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/kitchen_geek/profile