Gay Days was a BLAST this year! Truly one of the best times of my life. There was SOO much going on, it's impossible to see it all. To check out everything that happened check out GayDays.com. They're beginnning to load up the site with info for next year, which we're already planning for. =)
Where to begin? Sooo much happened, but it was such a relaxed, fun, drunken, pool-side, fucking great time. We took full advantage of our poolside room to sit and enjoy the view and drink on the patio and watch the swimsuits walk by.

Let me introduce you to the gang (at least the ones I have pictures of). This is Tim and Chris (left to right hehe). They've been together for 7 years now. Chris and I went to school together 11 years ago back when we lived in New Bern, NC and went to church together. He's a hair stylist now, so he's getting paid to do what he always enjoyed and does some costumes and prop designs on the side. Tim is a fellow Sudoku lover and accountant...those pictures of him queening out at 12 years old were priceless. =)

This is Robert, another friend from Wisconsin. God, isn't he gorgeous? *drool*
Here's Craig who's from Charlotte and I hear he works for Bank of America.

And this is the view we had from our poolside room. I mean, we couldn't have had a better spot in all of Orlando than this room - overlooking the pool, near the stage and speakers, clear shot to the hot tub if the interest arises, just perfect.

Occasionally the DJ would take a break and they'd bring out the Budweiser boys (who were like hot twins who played with each other all the time, hehe) and they'd have some little contest. This was Keg Rodeo where they tossed these two kegs in the pool and got some boys to try to balance themselves on them....it was interesting whatching them try to ride it, hehe.


Let's see, the first night I got there I crashed and me and Chris spent the entire next day criss-crossing Orlando for all kinds of crap. That night we met up with some of his friends at Pleasure Island and went to Mannequin where there's a big spinning dance floor. That was fun. =) Then we saw a comedy show and went to the 70's-80's dance club cuz we're both 80's kids.
We came home that night, or rather around 2am Friday, and an hour so later their friend Robert came in from where they went out to and we all hung out for a bit. The next day we fake baked, got groceries, packed up and went to the hotel. We were all just giddy to be in that room. =) We unpacked and spent the night making drinks and trips to the hot tub cuz it was raining a bit that night. The next day, it cleared up and all the threats of tropical storm Barry ruining our weekend faded away in the morning. Saturday and Sunday were absolutely beautiful and we spent them both nearly identically -- sitting out by the pool, dancing in the sun, splashing in the pool, drinking too much, just realxing, and having a great time. Saturday night though we had tickets to go see Lisa Lamponelli at the Hard Rock in Universal Studios. She ain't right. Her gay friend Wendal is funny, too. "My name's Wendal, and I'm just a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle bit . . . GAY!! . . . TADA!!!" Hehehe . . . Sunday was our last night in the room. Me and Robert took off to Parliment House to go dance a bit and check out the foam pit....what a freak nasty orgy fest that was in there. *shivers* But we also saw Debra Cox perform for a bit and then danced in the club for a while. Monday I'd planned to leave, but stayed over at Chris and Tim's and watched a movie and reminisced through our high school yearbook. The next day I took it to the crib.
Boy, did I cross out a lot of firsts this weekend:
First Gay Pride thing ever
First time around thousands of homos
First pedacure
First manicure
First highlights (I really like them, too.)
I'm sure some other things will occur to me later, little tidbits of randomness that happened over the weekend -- like Guillermo's coming out story...a phone conversation with his mom:
Bill: Mom, remember that important thing I needed to tell you?
Mom: Yea.
Bill: Well, I'm gay.
Mom: Oh ok...so how's the weather down there?
LOL
I'm sure there's plenty more I forgot or I'll blab about later. Any questions? Just ask!