dragonboat this weekend!
May. 16th, 2006 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittenscribblewhoops, almost forgot to say that the 5th annual DC Dragonboat Festival is taking place this weekend. I will be rowing with the East Rising Dragonboat Team, and my sister will be the drummer. If you stick around long enough, you'll even see East Rising do some Lion Dance. They're a fun crowd, and very acrobatic. If you're in the Georgetown-Kennedy Center area of DC this weekend, come on down and cheer us on!
(Last year, I invited people to "wait in breathless excitement for someone to fall into the Potomac." I was joking, but it actually did happen; high winds came up and capsized a boat full of 250-lb rugby players, some of whom were apparently a bit tipsy (ha, tipsy). Pretty amusing. Not to knock the rugby players, mind; they did so well one year that they got invited to Taiwan. But hopefully there won't be any mishaps this year. Besides, most of the boats tend to be full of light, skinny Chinese.)
Anyway, it's a good time. There's also a lot of Chinese cultural stuff, food and merch stands, etc. And of course it's always fun to watch the boats race.
(Last year, I invited people to "wait in breathless excitement for someone to fall into the Potomac." I was joking, but it actually did happen; high winds came up and capsized a boat full of 250-lb rugby players, some of whom were apparently a bit tipsy (ha, tipsy). Pretty amusing. Not to knock the rugby players, mind; they did so well one year that they got invited to Taiwan. But hopefully there won't be any mishaps this year. Besides, most of the boats tend to be full of light, skinny Chinese.)
Anyway, it's a good time. There's also a lot of Chinese cultural stuff, food and merch stands, etc. And of course it's always fun to watch the boats race.
