Day 1 - Friday, April 29th 2011 - The Journey
5:00pm
Nicky and Chris raced home from work to do a last minute double checking of the gear that they would be taking and burn a few more road trip CD's.
6:30pm
Richard and Jennifer arrived. Everyone crammed all the gear into Nicky's Aveo and then hit the road.
12:30am
After a few stops and wrong turns, the quartet arrived in Texas at Hidden Cove Marina and Campgrounds. They all snuck into the park and searched for a decent spot under the cover of darkness to pop up the tent. The winds were extremely high and somehow the stakes, tension lines and cover to the tent unfortunately had been forgotten. Luckily, there were cinder blocks and heavy rocks around that the group lined the inside of the tent with. This combined with the lashing of one tent pole to the side of a picnic table was more than enough to keep the tent from taking flight for the night. With clear skies and after many giggles, they all fell asleep.
Day 2 - Saturday, April 30th 2011 - Pre-Concert
9:30am
The freaky four got up and packed all their gear. It seemed that the park ranger hadn't made his rounds yet so they slipped out under the radar without paying the camping fees.
10:30am
The crew filled their bellies with doughnuts, coffee and other assorted breakfast items. Chris scammed the register jockey out of a sandwich and a coffee.
11:30am
After paying the insane amount of twenty dollars for parking, the team finally made it to the Pizza Hut Park Arena. At the gate, the signs read no food or drink. This angered the pregnant girl in the group, Nicky. She then barked at the security guard that she needed her protein rich snacks. Avoiding what would surely have been a painful death, the guard waved them all by.
THE SHOW
The following 10 bands none of the group payed much attention to ether because they thought they sucked, were too generic or the team was just plain occupied by something else more entertaining like eating, pooping or merch tents.
- North of Autumn
- Electric Touch
- Dynamite Walls
- Young the Giant
- Panic at the Disco
- New Politics
- The Airborne Toxic Event
- A Day To Remember
- Neon Trees
- Seether
- AWOL Nation Not too shabby with cool beats and hooks. Richard hacky sacked while the other three wiggled next to the stage.
- Middle Class Rut Watched from further back but was fairly entertained.
- The Dirty Heads The four got in nice and close to groove with these reggae rock homies.
- Flogging Molly Nicky and Jen vacated to the safety of the stands while Richard and Chris moshed like maniacs amid the other sweaty shirtless animals. Rockin' performance with a rowdy crowd.
- Social Distortion Watched from a distance due to the general area mosh pit being closed off by the venue. Awesome performance none the less.
- Weezer Unfortunately had to be watched from a distance again. Weezer kicked more ass than any other band out of the entire day. They ran through the crowd and really made the fans feel loved.
- Janes Addiction Stellar performance as was expected. There were over 30 different sets of boobies that got flashed at the band and put on the big screen. Even Perry Ferrel was amused by the sheer quantity of half naked women.
12:00am
After twelve plus hours, the festival of music was over. The sun baked and sore four left the stadium in search of food. The snarfing of an assortment of greasy goodies commenced which was eventually followed by sneaking back into the campsite and re-setting up of the tent.
3:00am
Chris was awoken by lightening flashes and a bit of rain spray. He and Nicky headed out to 7/11 (the only thing open at the wee hours) to find something to cover the tent roof. They came back with two boxes of trash bags and duct tape. After Richard, Nicky and Chris haphazardly patched one of the gigantic screened sides like a hobo would, they decided it would be good enough to get them by and passed out.
Day 3 - Sunday, May 1st 2011 - The Last Leg Home
7:00am
Chris was ripped from his slumber by rain splattering on his face. He popped up to find that the typhoon like storm they were now in had ripped half the bags off the tent and rain was pouring in everywhere. He screamed "Abandon ship!" and the sleepy tetrad hurriedly stuffed everything back into the little Aveo and hit the road.
7:45
Cold and hungry, the squad pulled into Cracker Barrel to warm their digits and fill their gullets heartily.
9:00am
Back on the road.
3:00pm
They pulled back into Wichita. Richard and Jennifer headed back to pick up their dog and children while Nicky and Chris hit the hay.
Fin.
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