i don’t have any photos because 1)my camera batteries were dying 2)we were still in our undies in the shots i took and 3)i lost my camera.
j-up got to spend the day on a scavenger hunt around sf seeing sites the locals never go see, like the top of coit tower. she said she fell in love with the city again and kept saying to herself, ‘we live here!’ i know that feeling.
the last clue led her to the hotel room where i and a bunch of her other chick friends were hanging out having a poloriod lingere photo shoot! so. much. fun. and really … empowering? is that the right word? we all felt really great about ourselves by the end of it, even though we (each of us individually) felt really nervous about the whole thing before hand. ‘am i cute enough?’, ‘are my hips bigger?’, ‘do i even know how to look sexy next to a bunch of dancers?’ ok, probably the six dancers didn’t have that last worry, but i did and i’d bet the one other non dancer did, too.
(i’m a little d dancer and they’re big d dancers. i mean, j-up teaches even.)
anyhow, frolic frolic, then it was off to dinner and out for a private lap dance for the bride to be. i wore a much more risque top than i’m usually comfortable in, but kept being reassured by the other women with me. the most common excuse was, ‘it’s pride!’… except we were downtown. oh, well, it was fun to be out and sexy like that.
then around the corner for more of the kind of dancing i’m used to. we all hobbled out to the cabs in our super cute shoes which now were killing our feet, back to the hotel for a quick change to more comfy shoes and outfits, and down the street to a bar where almost no one was dancing (except us once we got there). i got hit on by a guy who left me alone once he told me he was 26 and found out i am 32. well, he’ll be 26 tomorrow. i wished him a happy early birthday and went back to my dancing.
after dancing we went to an all night greasy spoon which was way too expensive, but we were way to tired to go anywhere else and figured we’d all feel completely like crap if we didn’t eat before going to sleep.
i took a cab home and was in bed just after 3 am. it was a fantastic night!!