So I went with my Aunt and a friend of hers (Juan) to Country Thunder 2009 in Florence, this last week and It was oh so much fun. As most would know It was terrible windy last week and being in a tent and out in open fields was not the funnest but we survived. We got to see Hal Ketchum, jason Michael Carroll, Heidi Newfield, Williams & Ree, Tracy Lawrence, Tim McGraw, Jack Ingram, Neal McCoy, Blake Shelton, Alan Jackson, Jake Owen, Diamond Rio, The Zac Brown Band, Keith Anderson, Little Big Town, Montgomery Gentry, and my personal favorite... Rodney Atkins.
So for anyone that does not know, because I didn't know, This whole event takes place out on an old ranch. It is just a bunch of hay fields that are inbetween harvesting seasons. So one field is open and all dirt that is where the set up the stage and everyone just brings chairs and blankets and you are there for all the concerts. If you choose to camp out, which we did, you are camped in the fields surrounding the stage. These are all the hay fields and the are bumpy and still have hay pieces lying around. it was all reather really life and almost too country for me imagine that! haha
So this is the tent after we got it all set up.... It was actually a nice little home for 5 days!
Even with the wind we had a lot of fun.... this is me and My Aunt Missi...
This is Juan and My Aunt Missi! She loves loves loves to dance and she was always making us get up in the middle of a song to dance with her, so this is them dancing... got to love it!
As you might guess everyone that goes to these things (well execpt for me haha) is drunk by the first night. All of the tents around us were young college kids and they were always playing all these funny drinking games with ping pong balls and ropes and horse shoes and all sorts of things. Well my aunt and I want to play our own games so on the third day we went in to town to Wal-Mart and bought jacks and bubbles... there was no drinking involved but all the people around us sure thought we were drunk! hahaha so this is me playing Jacks...
After the first really windy day we went back to the tent to clean up. Of course that was the first day we decided to shower, how were we to know it was going to be so windy later. So after showering I had put on sun screen before we went to the concert and when we went back to clean up that afternoon I took off my sun glasses and I looked like I had a black eye. All of the dirt was blowing to the one side and it had stuck up under my glasses when the lotion was not all the way dry. It is a little hard to see in the picture but it was super funny!
Even with all the wind it was sooo very hot. My aunt loves those little peach ring candies but she can't buy them in the part of texas where she lives. She was so excited to buy some when she got to Tucson. Well she left them in the tent the first day we got there and when we got back this is what we found...
She was so sad, they really did not taste the same at all.
But all in all we had a lot of fun, we spent a lot of the time just laughing. Along with everything else, We climbed a rock wall one of those fake plastic ones that was fun, and we also each took a ride on the machinical Bull... That was quite the adventure. What a week!
