Pride… Buzzed…

I seem to recall I promised a recap of my Pride weekend last week. Let me preface this with the fact that my current weekend (4th of July) was boring as hell – a complete juxtaposition to last weekend. Last weekend was gay and in Minneapolis – this weekend was boring and in Bismarck. Go figure…

We left Fargo on Saturday morning for the trip down, making the requisite stop at the outlet mall (and liquor store) in Albertville. Staying at the Radisson downtown is super convenient during Pride, as you walk pretty much everywhere. We ate at the IDS Center and then pre-gamed for the En Vogue concert at the festival. Let’s just say I was having a lot of fun that night…

…when I bumped into a couple of the stars from Noah’s Arc. I really hope I didn’t make too much of an ass of myself .

After a great show from Deborah Cox and En Vogue we returned to our hotel room, had a few more drinks, and then went to the Gay 90’s. One of our party stayed back at the hotel room though as they had too many Apple Pie shots when we were at the park for the concert (aka they passed out). The night at the 90’s was a lot of fun, I made out with a boy and I got to see one of my friends unleashed – she made out with everyone and grabbed their junk too. It was awesome, but boy was I hung over on Sunday morning.

We dragged ourselves out to the parade, for a little while, on Sunday morning.

Al Franken was there (like last year) as was a rainbow dog. Yep, some guy dyed his dog red/orange/yellow/green/blue/violet. We eventually left the parade before it ended and went to Panera Bread – which doesn’t sit well with me when I’m hung over. We made the walk to the park to browse the festival, which was as commercial as usual. Then we went to Uptown and ate at the Independent – my steak was awesome.

Sunday night was spent somewhat at the Saloon (I got to know some of the Grand Forks gays that I’ll be around when I move in August) and then at the Gay 90’s again. Sunday was less fun as a group since we all kind of scattered in separate directions. I ended the night not at my hotel room… if you know what I mean .

We were slow about getting out of town on Monday. Checked out of our hotel room at noon, then headed to Edina to eat at the Cheesecake Factory (yum!). It was an awesome weekend and definitely one of my most fun prides ever – fun group and we did a bit of everything. Most important there was no drama. Year 4 was definitely the best pride ever… and I can’t wait until next year.

Later!