Billion Belly March
June 20, 2006 | Bellydance
Saturday was the Solstice Parade and it went off without a hitch! I should have known the weather gods wouldn’t dare rain on my parade.
Of course I made SB take a bunch of pictures of me before we left since I knew the well-coifed, non-mascara streaked look was short lived.
Yes, this is the same costume from last year. The colors were red with purple accent last year, but this year Delilah changed the accent color to gold. I* just had to change the side scarfy things and a bit of trim on the belt and walah!
Oh how I love fake eyelashes! I went to a performance makeup workshop of Delilah’s once where she said that she likes to put them on when she has to make important phone calls. I totally get it. They just make you feel so fabulous, once you get over the weird, heavy eyelid feeling. Those bindis were super fun, too, though they would make for unfortunate tan lines later on.
Here is the best husband in the world, poised and ready for adventure! He came up early with me and scouted out a place to watch the parade for my mom, dad, sister, and sister’s boyfriend. He also risked Delilah’s wrath by folowing us for awhile down the parade route to get pictures.
It goes without saying that the Parade is a liberal lovefest. It begins with hundreds of naked bicyclists and there are plenty of naked people just walking around.** There are rules for the parade, however. You cannot have any printed words or banners (or animals or motorized vehicles) so you have to be a little more creative with your Bush bashing.
This would be the 5th Solstice Parade since he took office and each year there is more dead horse beating than before. The nudity seems to increase as well, which I am all for. Ahhh… the Solstice Parade, fighting against the increased prudery of society one nudist at a time.
One of the craziest things about being in the parade is the experience that is the staging area. The whole parade is crammed into about half a block. It is an insane mix of nudists, stilt walkers, bellydancers and bands, all practicing or warming up together at the same time. It’s nuts. It seems to take forever for it to be our turn to go but finally it starts!
The fabulous Delilah never disappoints.
Here I am spiking the camera. It is just so exciting when you see your people! Also, notice the water woman on the left, ready with a refreshing squirt or spray at a moments’s notice.
The parade ends at Gasworks Park where we gathered for a picture. Can you find me? ***
What an excellent day!
* and when I say “I”, I mean “my mom”.
** I gotta say, I prefer the uncircumcised weiner when confronted with foreign weiners in public. They just seemed more dressed, more polite.
*** You KNOW I found a spot up front. 
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June 15th, 2007 at 9:40 am, Zesty Enterprise » It’s time for the Solstice Parade again! Says:
[...] You may recall last year’s parade, as it is always an epic event and the hightlight of my year. Fremont, a formerly hippie, now condo-fied, but still funky neighborhood in Seattle, has a Solstice Parade every year, and for the third time I am bellydancing in it. (This post explains the nudity and craziness involved. Well, I’m not nude, but others are.) The Thursday before the parade, we have a huge dress rehearsal in an airplane hangar, where all the different components of our group practice together for the first time. There are over 200 of us! The theme this year is ancient Egypt and there are the bellydancers, ladies doing pretty swirly things with big Isis wings, gods and goddesses, drummers and zorna players, and special this year, about 50 guys carrying big fake stones and marching soberly along with us. When we reach the center of Fremont, they will put them all together to make a 16 foot tall pyramid, and then we’re going to dance around it. It’s going to be so. Awesome. [...]
June 25th, 2008 at 11:52 am, Zesty Enterprise » Hi! Hi! Hi! Says:
[...] comments of the previous post whether I had danced in the Fremont Solstice Parade this year, as in years past. Well, due to an issue I will cover later this week, I was unable to make it to all the [...]