In the Wamu tent, these were the Shields of Faith. They look like a pretty typical gospel band until
you see the drummer - who must have been about 8! He totally rocked!!
Our first ACL text message was an offer from Sweetleaf tea with an offer of a free iced tea if we showed them our text message between 11 and 1. Of course we did that and picked up some cool tattoos.
Brian and Virgina joined us today. A pic of their son Jack is coming up later.
The food vendors at ACL are numerous and there are too many delicious choices. Probably the best festival food you could ever expect.
This guy - Eli "Paperboy" Reed and the True Loves was close to being the best show of the day for us. Candy ran over to buy his CD right after the show, he was that good.
We tried to enjoy Erykah Badu, but didn't so we went back to our chairs at the AMD stage and picked up the end of Robert Earl Keen.
It is an annual tradition for me to see my friend Sam at ACL and we finally found him sitting just a few seats away with his hiking friend Dave (I think that was his name). Sam is so busy with a full time job, graduate coursework and now an internship. I don't know how he does it all.
John Fogerty was totally great - he should have been the headliner for the day.
Everyone was on their feet dancing during the whole set!
But somehow Jack managed to sleep through the whole thing. He will regret not seeing this rock n roll legend.
Our daily photo. Mike is appropriately wearing burnt orange because it was a Longhorn day.
We just loved this woman's color coordination. She even had a turquoise chair (you can see the cupholder next to her left boot). Check out the sox and boots. Boots in this heat? Yes, we saw lots of them.
Nemo was perfect this evening. We used one of those "stick up" lights to light him up this time. People clapped when we had the lighting ceremony and hoisted him back up. It was clear that many folks were using him as a point of direction - find Nemo and turn left... It was fun.
Missy and her friend Trish came by for a visit so we gave them glow necklaces.
Katie prefered to read than listen to Alison Kraus and Robert Plant (I don't blame her!)
We ended the evening at Billy's Brew and Que where we got a table immediately but the service was so slow and inefficient we still didn't get home until midnight. Everyone was too wiped out for the hot tub and looking forward to a good night's sleep. One more day and it begins in about 2 hours!
Oh, about the blog title - while the wristbands are a more comfortable cloth this year, they have these long strings that are impossible to tuck anywhere and you can't cut them off because they have the ticket number imprinted. Most of us put them on our right wrist and when we reach for the salsa to dip our chip... well you can guess what happens.
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