Music Festival Day 1

This past weekend, our family had the opportunity to attend a Christian music festival! We’ve wanted to go to a festival for years, but never had the opportunity. That is, until now. J Our time at the festival was exhilarating, which was probably good considering we went to bed around 1 a.m. every morning, and some of us still got up at our normal times (or even earlier) due to other things going on that weekend.

 

The festival started on a Friday night. Dad had a business dinner to go to, and wanted Mom to go along with him. So instead of our usual pizza and movie night, we parted ways. We kids went out to Chick-fil-A for dinner, which was definitely ok with us. J

 

Rubia and Roma at Chick-fil-A.

 

To kill time while we waited for Mom and Dad to finish the business dinner, we went over to the Christian bookstore for awhile, and then to another bookstore. We kids can all get lost in a bookstore. J Seriously, our family can park in a bookstore for hours and no one complains!

 

Mom and Dad met us there after their dinner and then we all drove to the festival. Thankfully it wasn’t too far, although I admit “close” is a relative term when you live in a state that is 268,820 square miles! J

 

The ranch where the festival was held was absolutely beautiful! The rolling fields were perfect for the event. We parked way out in the free parking area where some of the campers were and walked to the main stage area.

 

A lot of people were camping at the festival grounds, and everyone was quite comfortable in their lawn chairs and blankets, despite the fact that stormy clouds loomed overhead the whole night.



The headliner for Friday night was Sanctus Real. We’ve never seen them in concert before, but we really enjoyed it! We had our blanket about halfway up the hill facing the stage, but some of us went down close to the stage to take pictures. It’s also fun to be up with the “fun” crowd. J

Photo Credit: Roma.

Probably the coolest part of the concert was when the lead singer of Sanctus Real, Matt Hammett, came down into the audience during a song and shook hands and gave high-5’s. Ben, Roma, and I all shook hands with him!

 

The show ended a little earlier than planned because of thunderstorms rolling in. On our way home, we drove straight through the storms. It was a Texas-strength downpour, and we were only driving 35 mph on the freeway for most of the drive home. We were just thankful that we were inside the car and not outdoors! Tired as we were when we got home, we were looking forward to another fun festival day on Saturday!

 

To be continued . . .