We're Here! We're Dear! Some Of Our Family is Queer!!!

So my lovely sister-in-law Sara, who works for the Bellagio as a Wedding Coordinator has been keeping me very busy lately. We joined Las Vegas Athletic Club last week and boy, as the punch line says, "Are My Arm's Tired." We did an upper body workout with a little sweetie trainer named "Micah" who is originally from Cypress, CA. He was shy at first but he opened up after we grilled him with questions and giggled about how silly the ladies with fake boobs looked when they were lifting weights...Wow, now that was a sight! We're having our lower body work out next week and I'll have to come up with another joke about that.

Sara also asked me to volunteer to walk with the MGM Mirage float (Bellagio is owned by MGM) for the gay pride parade. Now at first I thought, "Huh?" then I thought about my family and friends that are gay and all this "Prop 8" stuff going on and I thought, "Yeah, I'll do it!" Besides I'm sure Las Vegas gay men and women can throw a good party.

You know what? I was right.

First of all, the Mirage does not do "half-assed" when it comes to their floats. They really didn't have a budget this year, so they decided since they had all this "Ocean" stuff in their prop houses, they would use it....ALL OF IT!

Their slogan was "There's more than one creature in the sea, Proud of our diversity!" catchy huh! So on the gorgeous float (photos to the right), actually, my photo doesn't do it justice. I'm going to list what was on and around the float.

1. An Ocean float that lit up, blew bubbles and played songs like "Under The Sea" from Little Mermaid and "Rock Lobster" by the B-52's.
2. 2 Mermaids (I wanted to be a mermaid, but you had to fit in the size 0 costume...Maybe next year.
3. A scantilly clad King Titan
4. A Lobster that ran around the float
5 A Crab that ran around the float (I called him "Crabby").
6. Schools of people holding fish that floated around the float
7. 6 people holding parasols that looked like Jellyfish (Sara and I were Jellyfish) that led the float
8. a man dressed as "Ursula" in full Octupus (or Octupi) Gear that ran around and hugged and kissed people in the crowd.
9. Oh...and a shark that tailed in the back.

The crowd was screaming and screaming "JELLYFISH" when we walked by...I had a sweet young lad (about 19) come out and hug me get his picture taken and thanked me for being in the parade.....I was surprised about how many really young people were out...it was really cool! And I felt energized and proud as I walked down the street.

There were some hate mongers in the crowd with their signs about Faggots this and Gay People that.....but you know what I think? I think we really need to pray for them, because when God finds out they're spreading hate everywhere, he just might send them straight to hell.

OK, keep voting for the Name of my home (Also on the Right)!

Bye for now!!! I'm off to pick up Alora Dana Cheek and we are going to have a very different weekend from my previous post (with Joanne from NYC). Exploring Sin City! It's fun!

C