each year, fremont hosts this outdoor festival in conjunction to the summer solstice. there is a parade with wacky floats, art cars (self-decorated cars) and naked people on bicycles. it is something you need to experience at least once in your life, in my opinion. I've seen the naked cyclers and they are mostly covered in body paint and are riding fast enough that you can't get a good look at much. I've always given it a PG13 rating at worst. now, I didn't go this year and I hear that it was a little more "revealing" so to speak. maybe an R rating would be more appropriate?
the fair is a jumble of booths peddling wares of jewelry, hemp clothing, leather sandals as well as informative booths like chiropractors (why are they always at every fair?), eco products, and youtube (because they are single-handedly taking over the world, apparently).
there are food booths selling elephant ears, piroshkys, crepes, and hand dipped corndogs. the options seem endless and while it may seem hard to make a decision to go with the elephant ear or the corndog, it's best to decide to get both and move on.
fremont is an area of the city, who in my opinion, seems farthest from God in a lot of ways. there were booths celebrating the right to choice, atheists of seattle, and booths where you could get your chakra "reading" done. while I do not condemn supporters of these booths, it does remind me how lost the city is and how hard we must pray...and love everyone.
but this is definitely the place where it is not uncommon to see a tiny dog in a tutu being walked by a man with a mohawk (hot pink mohawk by the way) in a utilikilt. grab your food drug of choice, find a place to sit and watch people for hours. it is nothing short of the best entertainment. and the festival is free to get in. how'd we get so lucky? I love seattle.
the cool fremont bridge. it opens when tall ships need to pass through the canal.
the official fremont fair poster in a local business.
the infamous rocket, fremont's unofficial mascot of sorts.
he was really good. and fast too.
this guy gets around. he's even at the allied arts show in richland.
some of the parade floats on display.
it wasn't the best corndog I've ever had but it sure hit the proverbial "fair food" spot.
these statues are dressed up and decorated for every occasion.did you catch them in "say anything" when diane and her father are on their way to graduation...no? better watch it again then.
2 comments:
Great post - although does everything have to involve "say anything". Your such a john junkie!
while I do not apologize for my love of all thing john, there may be a slight truth to hailey's comment. maybe I do mention him too much. no, really? well, I can't help that everything can be related to him and his fabulousness. I'll just try and keep it to myself. or maybe I'll just type my feelings (the ones hailey is trying to censor, bad hailey) in a font color to match my blog background. that way I will feel better because it's out there...and hailey will feel better because she doesn't have to read it. win-win.
:-)
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