Pride 2012

     So, I slacked off again, I guess I really didn't have much to write about. life was pretty much the same everyday.
     Until late last night, and when I say late I mean it was 2 in the morning, me and Izzie were sitting in the basement just chatting it up, when my phone rang, I looked at the screen and it was Quincella I got excited but I was confused as to why he was calling me at two in the morning. anyway, to make a long phone conversation short, "Hey Billie, guess what! I'm going to pride and guess who is coming with me?"
"me?" I asked
"Yup! I will be at your house at 8 am. Okay? good night love you bye bye!" Quin replied quickly. 
     Pride other wise known as Utah Gay Pride Festival. I had never attended it before, Quincy had a few times and told me how wonderfully amazing it was. When he said I was going with him this year I got all excited, but not sure what I am suppose to wear. 
    This morning Quin called me at 7am. so I fell out of bed and threw together a decent looking outfit, a brightly colored shirt some baggy TRIPP pants my red converse. I fixed my hair and waited for Quincy. Once he made his way down here we were on our way. 
     When we arrived in downtown SLC it was super busy filled with people, most of them wearing something rainbow. after fighting with the traffic Quin finally gave up and decided to use the underground library parking when we drove down there, a lady was standing by the gate to take parking money the first thing she said was "this machine is full of lies so I'm going to let you pass and you pay me when you leave alright?" Quin nodded and found us a parking spot. 
      Then we climbed up some stairs to the street and started the long trek to the other side of SLC. for the parade. there were tons of people there for it. we ended up sitting on a guard rail that was near the road. after watching the parade for a while one of the strangers that was sitting next to me started talking to me he was a very flamboyant drunk queen. he was very excited about life and was talking to me the whole time.
       once the parade was over we walked all the way back to the grounds where the festival was being held. we started walking around and picked up some food bought some souvenirs. and socialized with everyone there. it was amazing, everyone was so friendly and open accepting. for some reason a lot of people had dogs with them too. me and Izzie did some people watching and some dog shopping. Oh! and there was this scan the code scavenger hunt going on, and I decided to go for it. I found them all and I got a $10 gift certificate and a magnet for it.
      So by the end of the day I ended up with: a pair of awesome rainbow angel wings, a magnet, a tank top, a fortune fish, a sticker, a temporary tattoo, a snow cone. I was very pleased with myself. 
     That pretty much sums up my amazing day! I can't wait for next year! I want to make this and annual thing if at all possible!
     So after about 8 hours out in the sun all day walking about, I'm gonna take a shower then go to bed, GOOD NIGHT! 

UPDATE!!! I forgot to tell you, right after I bought my angel wings we were sitting on a bench and I was wearing them waiting for Quincy to come back, and this guy came up and put his hand on my sholder and said "hey angel, why do you look so sad?"
I replied with "nothing, I'm just out of money."
"well don't be sad angel, because your from heaven and your better then that." he said as he smiled  and walked away, it made me feel really good, it made me smile. so Random stranger if you read this, thank you for lifting my spirit, and raising my self esteem when it has been down in the dirt lately. 

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