The rain lasted long enough for me to have the most amazing Chai ever, and for everyone to catch up with internet usage. After the storm spit we headed over to house pool with our Undignified family. It was the perfect day to relax and BBQ with friends (and family for that matter.) I also got to expand my new Mac and Cheese fascination by putting it on my turkey burger. Thanks Tony for the BEST IDEA EVER! Mac and cheese burger, mac and cheese pizza, what else can mac and cheese make ten times better?
As it turns out Indianapolis is a pretty neat city. We got to see all different ends of of it. The best part was walking the canal with Joel and Sara while getting a reenactment of their engagement. The canal was beautiful, although somewhat disappointing that we couldn't swim in it due to the city's need to dye it for random holidays.
The next day we headed to Columbus Ohio for some good old fashioned couch surfing. We were wandering what is called the German district and met an amazing lady, Betsy, who informed us the neighborhood we were arranged to stay in wasn't the safest of places. She mentioned that she had an Avatar tree and fireflies at night. Sold! We opted to stay there and spend the whole night under the tree and watching the fireflies. Fireflies are a new thing for me and I have to say they are awesome, although I constantly thought there were sparks from the candle flying in the air. I've spent too much time around fire shooting fires.
We packed up our stuff the next morning and headed out bright and early to Alive. Alive is located on Atwood Lake and it is an awesome camp site. Unfortunately our camp site was a good half mile from the vendor tent which made our breaks that much shorter. Alive was much less stressful. People actually knew where to go and who to see, it was a big load off of my shoulders since I seemed to have inherited my mothers ability to worry about the little things. At Alive we met some more awesome people. The ice cream man Keith was overly generous with his old fashioned ice cream. He loved my visits and always left me with a full bowl of ice cream afterward. Delicious! What a great man.
As for other merchandise vendors, I was most impressed by the organization Ride Nature which is designed to bring board sports to kids in poverty. Their attitude about everything they did was so positive and incredibly contagious. Because of that, I want to go on a surf trip with them and try to help them tap into Montana's beautiful mountains with some kids. Uh oh... another project.
Alive proved to be another rainy festival. Except this time we got to fully experience mud. After a downpour the field you had to travel through was a complete mud pit. If only I wasn't trying to sell people sweet shirts I would have been sliding it in without hesitation. Mind you, this could have presented an issue seeing how I refuse pay three dollars for a shower (my only clean option at this festival.) Maybe next time...
I have now made my way further east to Pennsylvania. The past few days have been relaxing hanging out with my friend Jeremy that I met out here last year. His hometown Bellefonte is fully of amazing architecture that has been fun to experiment with my Nikon's photo abilities. It's been nice to get some Kodee time after dropping off Caleb. Being around people 24/7 leaves little you time, but it makes your really appreciate it when you get it. My second roadie flew in last night so the adventure can continue...
Next stop Creation...
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