24.9.07

Culture fest and VA Beach

Alright, it's been a while and I've been on a lot of great trips in the past couple weeks, so without further ado . . .

Culture Fest 2007

The weekend of September 14th - 16th was spent in Pipestem, WV for the 4th annual Culture fest. Most of the festival was spent listening to folk music on a rather large stage (for the venue). A group of five of us from Tech drove up and camped out for the weekend. I got a chance to try out my new tent: the LL Bean Microlight. Here's a brief breakdown of the day's events:

Friday: Arrived in Pipestem, WV to find out that we were not on the guest list, even though we had bought tickets. Much of the evening was spent sitting in a car in the parking lot waiting to get are bracelets. An hour later, we set up camp, which happened to be right next to another campsite full of gypsies! The gypsies tried to tempt us with their belly dancing and laughter, but our camp managed to resist, aided by some Magic Hat No. 9. Point us.

Saturday: Basically listened to folk music all day. The most memorable part was playing frisbee in a field while a band called "Sponda" played. Sponda is a group from Ohio who uses really old mantras in songs. Hard to explain, but really entertaining.

Sunday: Most of us realized that we drank way too much the day before, and woke up with third degree sun burns. Not fun!

Me playing the guitar
The Culturefest stage

Kristyn in the Microlight.

The gang.



Virginia Beach

This past weekend, my office mate Eric, his fiancee Caroline, Kristyn and I went to visit my aunt Dudie at Va Beach. We skipped work Friday and arrived at the beach around 2:30. All of us were pretty eager to get into the water, so we spent the majority of the day at the beach, although it was a pretty overcast day. The evening was spent on the boardwalk.

Saturday morning greeted us with blue skies and sunshine, so we packed a cooler full of beer, and headed back to the beach, this time with boogie boards. Due perhaps to an abnormally warm water temperature, we managed to see 50+ dolphins close to shore. Eric and I wanted to inspect them closer, so we jumped on the boogie boards and swam out to them. We were both literally 10 feet away from the dolphins, who, being the curious creatures they are, swam around us and blew their blow holes at us. Oh, and they had babies with them. Very cool!

Satisfied with our dolphin experience, the rest of the day was spent playing frisbee and sunning on the beach. That evening, we went to the Abbey Road Restaurant, where I managed to catch glimpses of the PSU - Michigan score. I'm not going to get into that here.

After dinner, Kristyn and I went to a mirror maze, which was very disorientating. We then met up with Eric and Caroline, and played a round of Jungle golf. Caroline and I ended up tying, with Eric coming in second, and Kristyn . . . . well she gave up after the fourth hole. Fun times were had by all.



17.9.07

Culturefest 2007

I recently got back from a music/folk festival in Pipestem, WV. Details posted later in the week when I have time. If I don't get to it before the weekend, then I'll tell you all about the Va Beach trip (this coming weekend). Later.