Merl feast 2008!!!!

I won tickets to Merl Fest from the radio!!!! They were 50.00 a day andI am way to cheap to pay that much to sit with 100,000 old hippies inthe hot sun and listen to blue grass music. Dont get me wrong, I LOVEbluegrass. Just ask anyone who knows me pretty well. Anyways, I won thetickets and me and boo went today. Stopped at the store and bought someponcho's, just in case it decided to rain but it was a very brightsunny day. gave boo the poncho's to put in our back pack and off wewent. The festival is in wilksboro which is about 2 hrs from here. wegot there and followed the signs to the parking lot which was actuallya parking feild. found a nice spot and parked old betty lou and got ourchairs outa her trunk. we walked about a half mile , lugging thecooler, the chairs, the back pack to get on a school bus to take us tothe festival. there was about 200 people on this bus!!!! sitting,standing, standing on folks that was sitting. the bus dropped us off atthe gate, thank god. lol. went in and walked around, listening tovarious artist and finally found a place to put our chairs dont not ontop of someone else. we ate a little bit of chicken on a stick that hadbeen cooked day before yesterday and then it happened. in the distance,i heard thunder. thought it would blow over. wasnt nothing to worryabout.. a few more bits of overcooked chicken and I KNEW it wassomething to worry about. we grabbed our stuff and made a mad dash tothe security guards tent. it was a tarp held up by 4 metal poles. notthe best place to be in a horrible thunder and lightening storm but ourother choice was the porta toliet and I think someone had beat us inthere. We hunckered down under our little tent and boo and the guardbegan a wonderful little chat about fishing while I stood and shivered.the wind was blowing sooo hard it was blowing the rain in under ourlittle fort. the rain was coming down so hard that it was beating themud off the ground up on my legs.. I finally remembered the ponchos.!!!! " Hey Boo, dig the poncho's outa the back back!" ( boo) HUNNNNNNN.I forgot to put them in there. they are back in the car" ( ME)&^%$## )(*&*( KILL YOU!!!!!"
secuirtyguard about died laughing. I really didnt seen the humor in it but Iguess if you were the guard who was standing looking at a very shortdrowned woman in short overalls and covered in mud who was wipping therainthat was dripping outa her hair outa her face, maybe it would havebeen funny. But from my stand point, it sucked!
By the time itfinally stopped raining, I had chill bumps on my chill bumps and if Ihad to listen to one more fishing story, i was gonna teach the guard toswim in the creek that was running long behind us.
we proceeded togo out to find our place in the mud to sink our chairs in and listen tosome more music. got a nice little place with lots of wet empty chairsaround us. the chairs behind us has a huge blue tarp over them so theywere dry. we sat there listening and shivering for about 30 min. whenboo decided it was time to get one of those greasy hot dogs he had beendrooling over. Off he went in the prusuit of heart burn while I wasthanking the good lord for the sun that had came back out. I was justgetting over the shivers and drying out some when the idiots with theblue tarp returned and decided to shake the water ( at least a fewinches) off their tarp and sit in their nice dry chairs. guess wherethey shook it. yep. I was soaked again. they were very snobby and didntseem to appricate the go to *&^% looks they got from me and thefolks beside me that they showered with their stupid tarp. sooo. boogets back with his oval heartburn on a bun and says" what happened?Your dripping again? " He scarfed down his dog and then decided wewould have a funnel cake. I am dry again by this time , thanks to thegood Lord again and he comes back with something so big we needed torent people to help eat it! After about 6 bits of this 50 lb bag ofsugar on a plate, I was sick as a dog. No more for me! Boo ate abouthalf of it and we dumped it. we were settled down now for the music. Mecrocheting and boo listening and women watching . We got to see docwatson and a few others that I dont have a clue who they were but theywere very good. then it happened. RAIN RAIN RAIN! that was it . I hadhad all the fun I could stand in one day so we packed up and startedour nice long walk in the mud back to the bus stop to get crammed inthe bus with now sweaty wet soggy 200 people to go back and be sit outa mile from our cars that are parked in now the mudbowl.
My shoes was doing the squishy squishy stuff and I HATE HATE HATE that!!!!!
Butyou know what??? I would go back in a heart beat cause I had ablast!!!!!!! I lvoe blue grass and I love old hippies and this was theplace for both at the same time!