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It's all done! Not only did I manage to tag all but one of the World Pride Amsterdam Canal Parade floats with the name of the organization on the float, I have even put links to their page on the
participants page of the Pride Amsterdam website in the captions for each of them.
Now I can't think of any more work I need to do on all the photos I took on this trip.
—No, wait. I take that back. Alexis is coming over on Labor Day to watch a slide show of photos from the trip. I still need to create a photo album for that. But
that's all I still need to do.
Given that the participants page is just on the generic Amsterdam Pride website, I do wonder how long the links will actually continue working. The next several months, maybe? I thought I did the same thing with contingents in the World Pride 2023 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
photo album, but I guess I only added tags for that one. I
did add links to the participants page from when we went to the regular Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney
in 2020, and
those links in captions would now be six years old . . . except, I am seeing now, in those cases I linked directly to the organization's website, rather than their page on the partipant list of the Pride website. Probably smarter. Oh well.
Did I do this with World Pride D.C. last year? I actually can't remember. Nope! It doesn't look like I even tagged them all. So, I guess I did more work for the Pride Parade photo album for Amsterdam than I did for D.C.
or World Pride Sydney 2023, but not as much as I did for Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras in 2020. To be fair, I only managed detailed captions for every photo in 2020 because we were in covid stay-home orders and I had nothing else to do.
I do have a
working collection of photo albums dedicated only to World Pride parades, having been to three so far (Sydney 2023; D.C. 2025; Amsterdam 2026). It's interesting to see there that the first is by far the largest album, with 181 shots; compared to 81 in D.C. and 148 in Amsterdam. This would be because Sydney was our first-ever World Pride and we very deliberately watched the entire parade (even though we had already been to Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras once before). Shobhit grew bored of the D.C. parade and we left before it ended and never came back; the same happened in Amsterdam, except in that case, Shobhit stayed at the hotel while I returned after a little less than an hour and walked to the end of the Canal Parade route, yielding maybe a couple dozen more pictures.
It does seem worth noting that when we go to Pride in other countries, they tend to have a web page with a list of participants. Seattle Pride does not do this, and I really wish they did. I wonder if it's a matter of volunteer labor hours? Should I offer to work on this for them? That's one type of volunteering I can actually see doing, though it's entirely possible they don't even see the need for it. As a spectator though, that information is incredibly useful.
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Anyway, we had no other thing pressing to watch, so Shobhit spent most of the evening watching season 2 of
Friday Night Lights on Prime Video. After I made us chai, I just sat in the living room most of that time with my laptop, looking up all the Canal Pride participants to tag them on my parade float (boat) photos. I've been able to figure out who all but a couple of the contingents I got photos of were. It was especially helpful when the photo showed the participant number typically hung on the side of the boat, as the participants web page has them listed in that same numerical order. (A few boats actually floated down the canals out of order, but the number being visible in photos still made it very easy.)
We also shared a few of the chocolate truffles from the box we bought at
Leonidas in Brussels. The only unopened box now is from
Passion Chocolat, which we had wrapped in a bow for bringing to the Family Vacation trip that is now no longer happening (originally scheduled to begin today). I need to call Dad again to see if he's up for it but I'm still hoping we can bring that to him and Sherri on Saturday.
After a few episodes of
Friday Night Lights, I set about washing dishes and getting ready for bed. I later had some text exchanges with Tracy about our plans this weekend: I forgot we had made plans to eat at Veggie Grill on Sunday. Now it looks like we'll also go to
a free summer art event on Bainbridge Island. I think she wanted to do more than just meet up to eat. Fine by me! She had some other suggestions, including Drag Brunch at Julia's on Broadway, which I have never done but really don't have the budget for. It's more than enough that I'll have to spend more than $11 each way as a pedestrian on the Bainbridge ferry. It looks like we'll meet there, at my suggestion; I can get to the farm from the Bainbridge ferry dock in about half an hour on the bus, and this way Tracy can drive straight there via the free west-bound Tacoma Narrows Bridge in about 10 minutes less than it would take her to go through Seattle and take the ferry (which would by definition be even longer since she'd want to get to the ferry terminal early as well). She'll then drive me back to Seattle via the ferry and we'll go to Veggie Grill.
Hopefully, that'll be after Shobhit and I drive to Olympia on Saturday. Tonight and tomorrow I have more movies to go to.
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