Edgefest & Gwen!

Wow ... I have no words! Well, I kinda do, but, well, ya know ...

Edgefest was soo much freaking fun! It was also nearly over a month ago ... I'm just late on posting this! I cannot even express how great of a time we had! We get there after our two mile walk, find the bathrooms, get our first $8 beer and find our seats.

Yay for being at Edgefest, with the sun blaring down on us - it felt sooo good!!!

We sit there for about ten minutes while we are all quietly thinking ... why are we not down there? When I say 'down there', I am meaning on the field! There were two blocked off area's on the field ... one was full of merchandise you can buy, the other was where you relax and watch the concert from the back ... or get up as close as you can and join in the mosh!

We walked down, then we walked back up to see the other two stages ... won three free burritos and a cd from Chipotle, realized we had missed a few bands we all really wanted to see and got a little sad ... walked back down again and kind of sat around waiting for a big rush so we could pass by the security guards with no problems! That moment never happened ... we actually watched another couple get thrown out for doing what we had wanted to do, so we put an X on those plans!

Tricia was determined, and we all saw it, so off goes Robert. He begins talking to this big mexican dude (I guess I need to say ... I have nothing against anyone who is big, or mexican), he turns around and yells for us to come on. Unknowingly, we followed and the guy completely let us through! I'm still not exactly sure what Robert said to him, but it worked! So, once we were in, Robert goes and buys us two 'Field' tickets off of a couple, so that we can go in and out!

So, with our original tickets, we were supposed to watch the bands from here:

(See the blue lights ... )

But instead, thanks to Robert, we were watching them from here ...

(This is not zoomed in ...and that is the lead singer of AFI)

I can't say this enough ... I have a newfound love for Papa Roach! Before we actually got onto the field, he and his band were performing ... when he had the microphone up to his face, he was smiling ... when he didn't, he was smiling ... he was having a jolly ole' time and it was wonderful to watch! He looks a ton different than he used to ... he kinda looks like the Madden brother from Good Charlotte, only not as cute ... but his smiling face more than made up for it! I heard him on the radio today and fell in love even more ... who knew that The Paramour Sessions (Papa Roach's newest cd) was completely written in a famous haunted mansion? He said he meditated in this amazing ballroom, came out and wrote five pages worth of lyrics ... the first thing he wrote was, "In the brightest hour of my darkest day" ... which is the first line of the song Forever!

I had a girl fall on top of my head (physically, fall ... she was crowd surfing), I was hit in the back of the head by mark's hat and elbowed in the mouth by the dude in front of me ... but it was great! Mark and I had the time of our lives ... as did Robert and Tricia! Mark keeps commenting on how he thinks this is possibly the most fun concert he has ever been to!

For me, I thought Blue October was great! They were the band I was most excited about seeing from the beginning! I knew most of their songs so it was fun to sing along! Papa Roach, AFI and The Killers are tied for me ... they were all amazing! Very energetic and totally got you in the head bobbing mood! Most of them had songs that I didn't know they sang! Jet, included!!

We began to look like raccoons! By the time The Killers were nearly finished, we had been there for nine hours or so, and were pretty ready to get some grub and a drink that wasn't beer! Even me ... which is completely unusual!

I can say with much anticipation ... we are excited about Edgefest 17 in 2008!!!

Edgefest 16 * April 15, 2007
(thanks, Tricia, hehe!)

The Killers
My Chemical Romance
A.F.I.
Muse
Blue October
Jet
Papa Roach
Bowling for Soup
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Kaiser Chiefs
Sparta
Saosin
Bullet for My Valentine
Say Anything
Placebo
Finger 11
Ataris

WIND IT UP!!!

Oh gosh, so on May 5th, I went to my first Gwen Stefani concert! Along for the ride was Mark, John, Tricia, Katrina, Hannah and Robert! Fun times! Lady Sovereign was her first opening act, followed by Akon! Luckily Lady wasn't out very long ... I'm not a big fan of her! I am also in love with Akon's DJ! I want him to DJ at our wedding! HA! He was running around the stage pumping up the crowd (and doing a fine job, if I may say so myself) and put on at least a five minute show before Akon ever walked out!

Katrina and Hannah came up from Austin/Weimar on Friday night and we had a little get together! Then, Saturday we got a hotel in Dallas and went to the concert!

I seriously love Gwen! Mark has a crush on her now, too! He kept saying "She's so preeeetty! She's like gloooowing!"! I have a crush on her and her husband! Ha! She put on an awesome performance! She even hollered out to us on the 'grass'! =) It was one of those concerts where you don't know half of the songs, but you don't care because she's still that awesome! And you can just tell how much in love she is with her son, Kingston! It's seriously adorable!

The line going out of the concert was seriously long and after a few beers, I was really needing to find a restroom! Thirty minutes of a traffic jam and we found our first restroom ... that happened to be broken! So, we went to this ghetto used-to-be-sonic place that sold beer in cups! I ran to the back and I swear there were deals happening along the way ... and it stunk! I got a pretty good laugh out of it! If only I hadn't gone by my lonesome! So after we left there, we went through another drive through place called Daiquiri's Drive Thru where they sold beer (like a Beer Barn), as well as other unmentionables! It was weird though ... they had rap music blaring and inside of the barn, actually had little pop up umbrellas where I saw men in business suits! It was a cool place, but super random! Anyway, then we trekked over to a place I seriously can't stand, but it was right next door! Denny's! Dun dun dunnn! I have never liked anything there, but I chomped it up! All the beer we had bought pretty much went to waste and we went to sleep!

Not much to say other than we had a great time! Harry Connick, Jr will be in town this weekend (I hope Mark is reading this! Heheheee!) ...


Hannah, Tricia, Katrina and I


Mark and I enjoying Gwen!

((Just wanted to say these pictures are small because I resized them ... I can't stand when pictures are so big that it messes up the layout ... even if they are more exciting full sized!))