Preparing for the ASGRA Rodeo

[bjarvis]

It's rodeo weekend in DC once again but the weather is definitely not cooperating.

The weather reports this morning were warning of heavy rains and potential flash floods across Saturday. The bulk of the rodeo events are in an open stadium in Montgomery County so we're either going to get utterly soaked or the events will be scrubbed. Figures.

kent4str and I are calling for the DC Lambda Squares dance demos Friday night (midnight!) at the official rodeo hotel in McLean, VA, and again Saturday afternoon at the soon-to-be-drenched county fairgrounds. We'll either have a captive audience in the only dry space in the area or we'll have no audience at all as everyone stays home (or gets washed out to sea).

Comments

[volunqueer.livejournal.com]

Whose bright idea was it to make the Official Rodeo Hotel in Virginia? Sounds like alot of driving to me!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Not a clue. I suspect it will be a faster commute to & from the fairgrounds since there's vastly fewer traffic lights. Still, it's far away from the gay neighbourhood, bars and restaurants downtown. I can only guess it was vastly cheaper or the usual downtown hotels weren't available.

I noticed that we're paying $10/day for parking at the fairgrounds again too. Oy.

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

Pray the Beltway doesn't clog up over the bridge!

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

Midnight? Assuming you get anyone at the demo, they will be tired or drunk (or both). Who thought that would be a good idea?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'm told the dance Friday will run 10 PM to 2 AM so our demo is not too badly timed: stragglers will have arrived but perhaps not yet called it a night.

In the past, I haven't found a lot of drinking at the dances: the hotel bars are too pricey for folks to drink too quickly --of course there's always the folks who packed their bar with them when they left home.

I do wonder though how many people will have simply blown off the hotel for the evening, preferring to run into downtown DC to go to Remington's, the Eagle or such.

[bendoutdoors.livejournal.com]

Add a wet t-shirt contest (and wet wranglers :-) ) to the program if heavy rains do materialize.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'll have my camera ready!

[ann0625.livejournal.com]

I never understand the point of wet t-shirt contest. Why don't they just take it off?