Ok, it was on September 16..but I was being lazy so I didn't post this...but I finally finished it...(yay me) :D

Wearing:

white long tank

orange shirt with gold rose design on bottom left

cargos

deck shoes

12:45-ish:

am picked up by a family from chruch. Taylor says, "Do you have extra clothes for just in case it rains?" I go racing back to my room and randomly grab a black skirt, black high neck shirt, cream low neck ruffle shirt, and a pair of feetless tights. wow. good thing I didn't need it...:) write notes back and forth with Taylor. Try to convince Taylor's mom that I really did eat lunch and no, I'm not hungry. Eat food that is given to me.

1:45:

Get to friend's of friend's house to met with other people. Hang out, stretch legs and meet kid named Jake. Have long convo. with Taylor about hair and what bands are playing on the way to fest. 

waiting...Jake on skateboard, Mark w/ red hair, Timothy in plaid shirt and hat.

2:30-ish

FINALLY get to Awakening Fest. Grab everything we could possibly need and go wait in line to enter.

(now there will be no times cause I don't wear watches)

Enter.

Find place to sit that isn't a mud hole. (It was very muddy, as it had rained earler)

Taylor, Jake, Tim, Mark and I go down to the Stage to listen to Sevenglory. Taylor slips twice on the way down. I say, "it's your fault for wearing flip-flops!" and laugh, hard.  Taylor and I lose the boys...brifly freak out, as we were told to stay with them...then forgot about them.

Fred (lead singer) and Caleb (bass)

Josh (guess what he plays)

Gabe (drums)

Sevenglory finishes.

Decide we LOVE them and go to merch area. Ask for a sticker that says, "Vote Yes 4 marriage One Man, One Woman." but they ran out...so I got a bumper sticker and stuck it on my shirt. Got information on Rock For Life. Got another bumper sticker and stuck it on my back.

Go over to band merch area. Taylor buys Sevenglory cd. I buy button that says I heart SG and a sticker that says Sevenglory.

Next, see Mark and Jake, they say their going to grafitti wall. They run off. See Taylor's mom and she says we can go too. So we race over there, and I say to the boys, "thought you could get rid of us?" Spray paint, "Jim 760" and also, "O" Spray paint edges of shoes silver. Ask girl where she got her hair cut. She says, "I cut it myself" Her friend says, "yeah, and she cut my hair too!!" Their hair is amazing.

Spray painting...

Look at that sweeeeeeeeet sticker!!

760!! Represent!! (ha!)

Go listen to Downthere. Their alright.

DownHere

The crowd. :) note the loooooooooong line of porta-potties in the backround. :)

Wander around, eat.

Matthew West was on next. Woooo...I love Matthew West!! It was so great..his message and his music are amazing!!

Then we hung around trying to get free stuff...

Chick-fil-a Cow!! yes!! I just had to get a picture. :)

Taylor and this other girl both grabbed the same shirt..so another girl did, "pick a number between 1 and 10" Taylor won. :)

Next was....BARLOW GIRL!! I was so excited. :)

Testing...

Testing with those sweeeeeeeeeet pink strings...

Still testing...I was way ready for them to start....

And then they did!! yes....

pink strings...where can I get pink strings??

Bright red hair...yeah that's me

She played two different basses..sweet. Did I mention I want all of their clothes? They look so cool. :)

The crowd...it got really big during Barlow Girl. The sun went down really fast...one second it was light..the next it was all grey. Really cool though.

Lauren is my favorite Barlow Girl. She is too cool for words. :)

The three. My favorite picture...Who says girl bands arn't cool?

After Barlow Girl, Taylor and I went back to where everyone was. Then we went and got Matthew West stuff (she got a cd and I got a no Sad button). Then we looned over to SevenGlory. She got a wristband and I got autographs...Fred and Josh were there. Fred was talking to a group of boys..and I thought," ya know what...I'm so not waiting." So I said, "Excuse me, I hate to interupt..but can I have your autograph?" I got some glares...but who cares? I wanted an autograph, and a group of teen boys were not about to stand in my way. (go me.) :D

Then Taylor's mom and sisters walked to get something to drink with us...and at the Chick-fil-a tent they were selling Sharpies that said Chick-Fil-a Southpoint..and I was like, "oh man oh man...I don't have my wallet!! Oh well...I don't really need another sharpie..." But then Taylor's mom just bought me one. I tried to tell her that I didn't really want it...but that's the great thing about adults. They never listen to you. :)

We went back to the blanket and I whipped out my sharpie and said to the boys, "Look...a Chick-fil-a Sharpie!!" and Jake jumped up and said, "Where did you get the sharpie?" I said, "at the chick-fil-a tent..." and he said, "We have to go now. We have to go now." So, Taylor, Jake, Mark, Timothy, and I walked back over so Jake could buy some sharpies.

After he bought 2, we just kinda stood there not waiting to brave the mud to go back...So Jake and I whipped out our sharpies and pretending they were lightsabers...

he said, "Well I have two, so that's better."

and I said, "Well, I'm evil so mine's double ended, so, uh, I'm going to win." and I started spinning the sharpie between my fingers (yes I have great skills) and Jake said, "WOW HOW DO YOU DO THAT?!" and he tried doing it and all that happened was he almost dropped his sharpie in the mud.

We started talking about..oh I don't know what it was...but Jake asked Taylor what grade she is in, and of course she said 8th..and Jake said, "HA! I'm a freshman, so I'm older than you!" and I asked him how old he is cause Taylor kept on saying he's 12..he said he is 14. I was like, "HA!! Taylor I told you he's not 12!!" I love being right. :P

After we got back to the blankets we worked hard on convincing the adults to led us go down and listen to Jeramy Camp. Finally Taylor's mom said she would take us. Yay!!

Mr. Camp and his band. :)

Sweet picture...if only those hands weren't there....

guitarist...love his hair...and plus he is cute. :) Taylor didn't think so and Jake said he looked glum...but I like glum-ness. lol

His message is kinda serious but I do like the music...

One of Taylor's sisters had to go potty so we made our way across the crowd...Taylor, the boys, and I waited for Mrs. Taylor's mom to come back and then we all voted and everyone wanted to go back to the blankets except for Taylor. We went back. We were just sitting there and some how I ended up looking at Jake's jacket...and I fell in love with it. It's from Billabong, and it's really warm...ok here's me wearing it. Taylor took it and I look funny...but I love that jacket..must get it...

(picture deleted cause I look really bad.) x[

ok almost done...

blah blah..we got in the cars...spent FOREVER getting out of the park. Me and Taylor made faces at Mark and Jake the whole time. They were sticking glowsticks up their noses..and at the time it was really really funny. Now, it probably wouldn't be as funny. But anyway...Taylor's sister fell asleep..then Taylor fell asleep...I almost did..I would have but I had my contacts in and I didn't have any re-wetting drops.