The Drag

I took the boys to a parade today since Cody was at work and we had a friend that was supposed to be in it. I had to wake Wes up to get go though and although we left early we still ended up missing half of the parade. I think I was given the wrong time.

Oh well. It was still fun. Wes and Zach both tried their first cotton candy. I haven't had cotton candy in forever and it tasted so yummy. Wes didn't quite believe me that it was a food, but he still tried it (after seeing Zach eat a bunch of it). Wes decided that it wasn't any good and gave me back a half chewed piece of it. Yum. *gag*

So the parade. Wow the parade. I've never seen so many men dressed as women in my life. It was truly truly an odd experience. The highlights were the Disney Princesses that were mostly men. Snow White really caught my eye. You can see Cinderella behind him all dressed up man. Tinkerbell was also a man, but Peter Pan was a woman. Maybe I missed the memo that the men played the woman's parts and the woman played the men's parts? But then some guy characters where guys and some woman characters were actually women. The costumes were usually cheap and probably only for this parade. I was so disappointed we missed the floats because the floats are always awesome here. A lot of work goes in to those floats and they are usually pulled by lots of Japanese people instead of by a car.



Next on the weird list was the guys that looked like gay male strippers. We're talking leather short shorts with lots of zippers. Face paint. Biker Bitch hats. Oh and very sexual dancing. When they stopped. I wanted to cover Zach and Wes' eyes, but I was trying to pick my jaw up off the floor and couldn't quite reach over to them. I don't think either boy was really paying attention though so yay for small miracles. And trust me, it was a miracle if you couldn't pay attention to them because these queens demanded it.

Oh hell, a picture is worth a thousand words and I'm too lazy to type out a thousand to describe them so I'll just add a photo. Aren't they pretty? I could not keep a straight face to save my life, but I did manage to snap quite a few photos in between the laughter. I'm going to straight to hell aren't I.

The dances were usually really weird, but the fun the dancers were having was contagious. Zach and I were laughing the whole time and Wes was pouting. I had to wake him up to take him to the parade and it too a while for him to be happy.


At some point there were these guys dressed up as some Japanese cartoon super hero chicks. The cartoon is called "Max Heart" I think. I'm not really sure, but that's what the car sign for them said.

The "girls" were standing there pretending to yell things (it was really on a loud speaker from the truck) and then all of the sudden on of them lifts up his skirt and aims at the bad guys. What the hell? There was like red squiggly lines of death on his shorts under neath the skirt and I wasn't sure what they were supposed to be either. Honestly I was laughing too hard and trying to snap a picture for Cody. Plus I really didn't want to stare at the crotch of doom. It was very very odd, but the guy was laughing so hard. I think it's one of those times where it sounded good when they were talking about it and it was actually embarrassing when they followed through with it. They all looked like they were blushing a bit.

After the parade was over we went to get some different candies. The boys loved these donut type things. I wasn't sure if they were going to be filled with something "yummy" like squid or not, but they were just slightly sweetened donuts and were actually pretty good.

I also bought the boys some sucker covered fruit. How much can someone screw up fruit right? Yeah, I won't be asking myself that question again because apparently the answer is "pretty bad." I had Cody try one first and he almost threw up involuntarily. He took a bite and his stomach started to churn. Now if Cody can't eat something you know it has got to be bad. I tried it before he did and it was like trying to bite in to a rubber ball. I have texture issues so I just quit trying to eat it and then after Cody's reaction I'm rather glad I didn't get a bite. The inside was like really mealy textured, bad apple kind of texture. We're still not sure if it was a fruit or not, but now I know just how disgusting seemingly innocent food can be