Pride 2012, Hiking Donut Falls, Mom's Birthday

Last year, as you may remember, I attended the Pride Festival. I have always wanted to go to the parade. This year, I not only knew when it was, but what time it started.

I couldn't convince Mr. Wright to come with us this year. I was a little disappointed, but Spitfire and Sunshine came with me. We got there just as the first entry rounded the corner of 200 South. This year was kind of a big deal, because there was a large group of Mormons who marched in the parade. They were not marching in protest, but as a peace offering. They called themselves Mormons Building Bridges. I was a little unsure how well this group would be received, but when the parade spectators saw them, they began cheering and applauding. It was REALLY cool!

Mormons Building Bridges at the Gay Pride Parade 2012

I saw my friend Michele and her son marching with them! I wonder if anyone from this group is going to get a call from their bishop...let me know Michele. ;)

Some other entries I liked:

Salt City Roller Derby Girls...I SO want to go to one of their matches!

Planned Parenthood...you better BELIEVE I'm a supporter!

Orgazmo and Choda Boy
You'll only understand the reference if you've actually seen the movie,
Orgazmo

The parade was SOOO much fun! We'll have to make it a tradition. We only stayed for an hour, because my kids were starting to melt in the hot HOT sun. Spitfire and I had a nice conversation on the way home from the parade. She said that she really likes gay people. I'm proud of her for growing up tolerant and loving.

After the parade, we went back to Big Cottonwood Canyon (again), to hike Donut Falls with Mr. Wright. It was a lot harder to hike when the sun was beating down on us! Spitfire, wanted to climb higher up the waterfall than we had with my mom and all the kids.

You can see the "donut" part at the top of the picture.
The water goes through a hole in the rock.



After the hike, we celebrated my mom's 60th birthday! She is such a great mom, and a fantastic grandma!

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Closing Night, Blythe Spirit, Air Show, Chris Kattan, and Donut Falls

We had a lot going on Memorial Day weekend. I didn't really think it was anything too blog worthy, but thought maybe I could cram it all into one post, lest ye think that all I do is watch plays, and sing in the band.

Friday night was closing night of my Murder Mystery play, 'North High: a Killer Reunion'. This story was set at a high school reunion, and somebody gets murdered...dun, Dun, DUN!!! I played Brittany, the cheerleader. Here are a couple of pictures from my show.

Singing the school song
"Go Beehives!"

True love conquers all.
"Our young love, it's how love is supposed to be..."

My friend Michele came to the show closing night.
"I did not put ANY peanuts in those cookies."

I can't tell you if I was the one who was murdered...or if I was the murderer...Maybe I was! The audience got to interview the characters to try to figure out who the murderer was. I overheard someone say, "Brittany's easy!" That gave me quite a chuckle, and I said, "Hey! Did you just say I'm easy? Don't spread rumors about me! I don't sleep around!"

Saturday night, me, Mr. Wright, and Spitfire went to the Empress Theatre to see Blythe Spirit. We met my friend Amy and her daughter there. Our friends, Stephen, Kristen, Nancy, and Bryan were in the show. They all did a fantastic job! And Nancy was very funny as Madame Arcati. We also saw our friend Megan (who, by the way, is looking super-duper slim) in the audience.

Nancy, me, Kristen, Stephen, and Amy

On Sunday, we went to the air show at Hill Air Force Base. It's not really my thing, but Mr. Wright makes us go every year. That's what marriage is all about, compromise. He goes to plays with me, I go to air shows with him. Okay, okay, I guess it's pretty cool to see airplanes do tricks. The weather was overcast, and the wind made it freezing!

Posing on an Osprey

Later that night, Mr. Wright and I went to Wise Guys Comedy Club to see Chris Kattan and Friends. Turns out that Chris Kattan was the opening act for the other guys who were a lot less famous, but WAY funnier. I was super disappointed in Chris Kattan. He didn't even really have a set routine it seemed, and just talked about his characters on SNL, without even doing any of them.

And he is SUPER short in real life. I bet he's only 5'2". The "friend" I liked the best was Jay Whittaker, (at least I THINK that was his name, I forgot). I believe he's actually a local comic, but he was hilarious! I could have waited in a line to get my picture taken with Chris Kattan afterward, but decided not to, since he wasn't that funny. Plus I would have looked like an Amazon woman next to him.

Monday, my mom, sisters, and all our kids went hiking in Big Cottonwood Canyon. We decided to hike to Donut Falls. It was a little bit muddy, but nothing we couldn't handle. I carried Sunshine on my back.




Spitfire and Dreamer

Spitfire, Grams, Sunshine, and Dreamer

Me and Sunshine

There's me in my nerdy granny sunglasses.

It was a fun but busy weekend.