It’s time for the Solstice Parade again!

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.

Here are pictures of the pretty pretty costume my mom and I made:

I took some video of our rehearsal  last night, but I can’t figure out how to embed the stoopid Google video thing, so hopefully you will do me the favor of clicking on these links:

Commentary number 1 -(0:59)

Commentary number 2 - (1:50)

I should have been dancing, but I was videotaping instead (0:49)

As you can see, it’s quite the hoot! If you’re local, the parade is Saturday at noon, and more info is available in the link above. Everyone else, I promise a thorough recap and hopefully good pictures on Sunday! 

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Edited to add:

Dude! We’re on the MSN home page!