Hi Everyone,
I had the best time of my life this past Sunday. I was invited and rode the Chicago Gender Society float in the Gay Pride Parade. To put it mildly, OMG it was more fun than anyone is entitled to have in a whole year let alone one afternoon.
There were 400,000 people in attendance along the 4 1/2 mile parade route and I think at least 300,000 of them were intoxicated beyond belief.
What a reception our float got. It was unbelievable. Several friends of mine were in the crowd along the way and they could tell we were coming a half a block away. There was an electrifying wave that went through the crowd as our float, which was one of 250 floats made its way along.
It was funny, as people would turn their attention toward us. The first girl they spotted was in the front corner of the float and she didn't get much reaction, as they panned their way down the float the next person was me and people's faces just lite up. I had people, both guys and girls blowing me kisses, guys mouthing, "Oh baby, you're so hot", guys breaking through the barricades to place strings of beads around my neck, guys breaking past the two security people walking between the float and the crowd to give me kisses and hugs. It was unbelievable! One guy kissed and hugged me and said "Sweetie, don't leave me so soon." It was hilarious!
One of the security guys looked at me half way through the parade and said "Erica, if we had known you were going to get that kind of reception, we would have posted two more guys on your side of the float."
My BFF Stephanie and I had to walk down the middle of Broadway Ave. to get to the float, which by the way had already been barricaded in preparation of the parade. We had guys whistling at us, call out to us "Honey, you're looking good today", or "God, are you hot" , waving at us, etc. At one point Stephanie looked behind us thinking that the parade had already started and was coming up behind us, but we were the only two on the street. She looked at me and said that we could have probably had our own parade.
What a boost for the ego, that's for sure.
On another happy note, surgery day is now only 10 weeks and 3 days from now. I received a telephone call from Dr. Bower's office yesterday informing me that I will be receiving my information pack from them next week sometime. This is just getting too good.
I also found out today that mine and Stephanie's photo was published in What's Up magazine that came out yesterday. It was in an article about Hot TG/TS girls in the area.
All I can say is WOW! Can it get any better?
I think there is also some anger that your taking away the person they knew (Or thought they knew)
