Sunday, June 3, 2012
Queens Pride
This year, Mi Cariño and I decided that we would try to attend the "mini" prides that happen around the boroughs during the month of June, to make up for my missing last year's. The first Pride of the month is in Queens, so out we went!
It was a mixture of a day: a bit cloudy, a bit rainy, a bit sunny. Getting there wasn't too bad - Pride was in Jackson Heights, and we rode the R train. It's such an experience: Jackson Heights is such a Latino neighborhood, apparently unaccustomed to see "the gays" walking around. But walking around the gays did, and we mixed right in. As always, a lot of the stuff in the area catered mostly to men, but we were able to find some stuff that interested us, found out the names of possible clubs to go visit, and enjoyed the delicious food available. Really the only difference between this Pride and your regular NYC Street Fair was just the amount of men's chests one could see. We enjoyed having a delish Mozzarepa, corn on the cob, fresh watermelon, while listening to lovely music.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Goodbye Albuquerque
Recorded at a Navajo Middle School today. It was already after the last day of school so it was pretty empty. However, the welcome sign was pretty nice: (the middle one is in Navajo language.)
After we were done, we made our way to the ICE Caves. It took forever to get there, but we wanted to actually do something nature related. It is New Mexico after all.
It's amazing, after a small hike down into this volcano pit, you have to make your way down by walking down these wooden steps. You don't believe it, but you're walking down the steps and it's your regular New Mexico 80 degree weather and then a certain number of steps down, it's like 30 degrees cold.
The ice part of the Ice cave. Unfortunately, you can't walk on it anymore, which would've been amazing.
The view from the bottom:
The view back on our drive back to Albuquerque proper.
Tomorrow, we head back to New York. In my next supervision I will be announcing my acceptance to Silberman School of Social Work and providing my notice. Here goes nothing.
After we were done, we made our way to the ICE Caves. It took forever to get there, but we wanted to actually do something nature related. It is New Mexico after all.
It's amazing, after a small hike down into this volcano pit, you have to make your way down by walking down these wooden steps. You don't believe it, but you're walking down the steps and it's your regular New Mexico 80 degree weather and then a certain number of steps down, it's like 30 degrees cold.
The ice part of the Ice cave. Unfortunately, you can't walk on it anymore, which would've been amazing.
The view from the bottom:
The view back on our drive back to Albuquerque proper.
Tomorrow, we head back to New York. In my next supervision I will be announcing my acceptance to Silberman School of Social Work and providing my notice. Here goes nothing.
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