springfest festivus

It always takes a few days of detox for us after visiting our favorite music park in northern florida. And I don't mean detox in the normal sense, but the in your face back-to-reality type of detox where you go from being absolutely completely at ease and relaxed to having to go back to the daily mundane stresses of work and life.

Last weekend we went to Springfest at the Spirit of Suwanee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. This was our first time to Springfest (we have previously been to Magfest in the fall and Wanee in the spring at the same park).  Springfest focuses on americana, folk, and bluegrass music. The festival grounds are huge including the Suwanee river, horse stables, tons of primitive camping spots, etc.. It is very serene and everyone there is always in a laid-back happy place for those 4 days. It's good for the soul.

Two highlights: Meagan came with us (cake) and the Avett Brothers were the headliner Saturday night (.. and the icing).

One bummer: No veggie things. ....tear.....

Our campsite was a little gem as with only a few thousand people there (as opposed to Wanee which was 30,000) there were lots of great spots left even though we arrived fairly late in the game on Friday evening. Although not too late, as we got to catch David Grisman. :)

Our campsite was on a main stretch and so we got to see many interesting things such as: 1) a golf cart retrofitted to look like a rat which was lit up at night... Exhibit A

2) the random suwanee joke man..

Joke 1:

(him) Knock Knock

(us) Who's there?

(him) Woo

(us) Woo who?

(him) WOO HOO!!!!

Joke 2:

Did you hear about Mickey and Minnie Mouse getting divorced?

Yeah, they were in court and the judge says to Mickey, "So, let me get this straight? You are divorcing Minnie because she is crazy?"

To which Mickey replied (in a New Jersey accent), "No, your honor, I said she is fucking goofy!!"

3) the drunk woman at 11 am laying in the open-netting bed part of a pop-up camper in a t-shirt and a thong yelling at her husband that she had to pee and she didn't care about any of the shit he was doing (which was filling their water tank in the camper) while we all watched and laughed and the poor sap shook his head saying "No more mimosas in the morning" or "You guys don't understand my life.."

Wish I had a pic to share for that one...

We spent quite a bit of time at the campsite just relaxing and enjoying overhearing our neighbors (5 kids, an older brother, and their very dedicated father) who were ironically from Fort Lauderdale. 

Meagan don't be mad, but had to post your self-chocolating episode.. Note to self: Never mix eating chocolate while applying lotion. Unless you are into that sort of thing...

The Avett Brothers were incredible as usual and we were about 15 feet from the stage thanks to Meg and her excellent crowd-maneuvering. Here our are feet taking a break from dancing..

More pics to come soon....