Travel Adventures: Summer Camp Music Festival 2018

Hot, hot and more hot. We had a blast there is no denying that but this was some extreme weather we had to deal with and I am really proud to say we made it through the other side mostly intact. The festival ran Friday-Monday but we ended up leaving Sunday night after the bands we wanted to see due to the 97 degree heat that day. Temperatures were in the high 90's the entire time and the lowest it got was around 80 at night. Saturday night was so sticky and humid that we were sweating at night. Needless to say after sleeping 11 hours last night (in my own bed) and a shower I feel human again.


Here are some really great memories from this trip.

Day 1 Friday

This was the only day it rained and it was a relief and cooled us down a bit. Plus we got to see a really awesome set by my favorites Horse Shoes and Hand Grenades up close and a rainbow! Here are some highlights!

We had the coolest camping site after much walking all over. Thank god I made Ryan get us a awesome garden wagon.

Berries and yogurt in a cone. Refreshing.

Excited to have made it to IL!

Okay I hated this beer. Way too hoppy for my taste. 

Thai bowl with a ton of veggies.

Our daily stop at the free Johhny Walker station. 

The ginger one was the best with Johnny Walker. 

People packed into the woods for camping. I loved the stuff in the trees. 

This is right before they made Horse Shoes and Hand Grenades stop playing so they jumped off the stage with their Instruments and played a set like in my face. I even got to request my favorite song by them and they gave Ryan a free beer. Weekend made already on day one. 

So frickin awesome. Hello!

Ryan went and got us $8 bloodys. We did this daily and they were worth it for the ice alone. 

Pickle!

This band was funky and fun. 

Why hello Kyle (he is from the string cheese incident). We saw a rainbow!

love this hat.

post rain views. temperature this day was low 90's.

Getting ready for the night.

A dino!

Umprey Mcgee rocked it.

yey!

Happy.

super cool light show.

 A DJ would play inside this pyramid and then people would enjoy from the outside. Super cool.

NY pizza. Late night noms. 

Huge Crowd.

Day 2 Saturday

Average temperature was mid low 90's this day with no rain. It started to get really dusty. I will say two things this festival needs to work on are the bathrooms they did not have enough or did they have enough water stations. For about 25,000 they had two stations that were not well places in the venue. We worked around it but it was a bit stressful sometimes. 

Here are some more highlights from this day. 

Hot morning but great views. 

Finding shade. The survival of heat. 

A burrito it was okay. I should not eat hot things when it is hot. 

$6 rootbeer float. Worth it. 

Moonshine Stage. Enjoyed some shade. 

Bright Lights.

This cider was huge.

Nom.

This was the best thing we ate. They had built a bread oven and this was fresh stuffed with cheese and sausage. 

The bread next to the fancy earth oven they built.

Mint tea. 

Trippy. 

How cool.  

Day 2 Saturday

This day was intense. At this point we are on day two with no rain. I think when we woke up it was already in the 80's. I showered two times in the "water station" area. Which was not really a station at all. We ate some good food this day and tried our very best to stay in the shade at all times. Even walking from set to set in the 97 degree temps was a chore. We planned on staying into Monday but the idea of sleeping another night in the 80's was not something we wanted to do. So we watched all the sets we wanted to see and headed home at like 8pm. It was worth leaving early. 

Highlights from our last day. 

These pictures are in reverse order of me taking them and honestly to lazy to fix it. 

I swear we wore shoes/sandals the whole time and washed our feet a lot. So much dust!

Our last show JJ Grey. He is amazing and wore a black suit the whole set. Somehow no one died. Not us nor him... Amazing music.

MMMM. Tacos. 

Waiting for Greensky Bluegrass in the shade with a gatorade. Protecting my face from the dust. 

Greensky blue grass is amazing. 

Keep that dust out of your lungs people!

It was fun and real summer camp!

Chicago Farmer as amazing at the start of the day. His wife makes cool necklaces out of guitar stings from famous bands. I snagged a cool one. 

HOT!

Chicago farmer was great. 

We really had a fun adventure to this festival. Each one we go to is completely different and I would not have it any other way. I love that we do this once a year and who knows were we will go next year. I can handle the heat maybe burning man?

Until next time~
XoXo Emily