So obviously it's been a while since I last wrote.. Most of you know the main things that have happened in my life since my last posts so instead of this being a summary post of everything that's happened in the last year I'm going to jump in and give an update on what happened last weekend in the city.
Any excuse for craziness and day drinking is insanely popular in the city. Proof: Bay to Breakers, a 12k (just over 7mi) race that goes from one end of the city to the other. It was started in the early 1900s as a way to get people in a good mood after their city was pretty much leveled during the 1906 earthquake. Wiki article Since then it's been an integral part of the city's charm and has evolved from a race to a crazy party in the streets with some serious racers and thousands of people in costumes (or nothing at all) dancing and partying their way through the city.
I went this year with Bdawg and some friends. Great fun.. We started about halfway through the course and walked until Ocean Beach in time to enjoy some freaking cold wind and a ton of sand blowing around, and then watched the solar eclipse. Enjoy the pictures!
Rooftop party:
Black Swans
Me last year with a nudie. Our outfits match!
Limbo in the streets
Married? Don't know if it was for real or not but they exchanged rings..
Facebook & Twitter:
Hanging out on the beach:
SF love story:
Street fighter!!
Herd of cows:
Nudie!! Note how no one around him is acting like this is anything out of the ordinary:
Centaur/cow man. I say cow because you could "milk" him to get vodka. No joke--you can't make this stuff up if you tried.
Bdawg & I waiting for the Eclipse. You can see it's already started--the moon is moving from the right side to the left side of the sun and the sun is an oval instead of round.
Iron Man!
B2B is popular with people of all ages.
So you can see just how massive this thing is...
You can see the solar eclipse in the light passing through my friend's sombrero!
Warning: Not life size.
Another picture to show you just how massive this event is:
He loves me so much.
???? My best guess: Crazy tiger shaman...with sunglasses?
Picture my friend took of the eclipse through one of those sunglasses especially for the eclipse. At its fullest point, it was 84% covered by the moon or something like that.
Party bus! It didn't drive anywhere but people were partying on it and the driver was DJing.
Example of a group costume:
Angry robot yelling at Siri:
So there you have it. Quite a few pictures of B2B craziness that still don't do it justice. There is nothing like seeing a group of people dressed as giant Legos passed out on the grass, using their Lego costumes (painted cardboard boxes) to shield themselves from the sun.
Next time I'll introduce everyone to the How Weird festival that took place 2 weeks ago :) Now it's time to get ready for dinner--Fondue time with Bdawg and friends in the city!
