The Warped Tour

Wednesday morning at 5.15 me and Nikki got up to pack and get ready for the trip. At 6.30 Shaylee and Shatonnon picked us up and the journey towards Kansas city began. I practically slept the whole time, and thereby the time passed smooth enough. At Chili's I had the best Chicken Sandwich ever with loads of spices and red pepper. I ate way too much, got stuffed, and felt bad for a long time afterwards. Our plan was to try to get a hotel BEFORE we would go to the concerts, but our options wasn't many and getting a room for 150$ where not all of us could sleep anyways felt wrong, so we just skipped that part. Overall the warped your was awesome. I've never ever bee that swetty though, it was crazy. Well, you go try to jump in a crowd of people in 38 degrees C, no wind, and not a cloud in sight. You could have run around naked and you would still have too much on. Luckily enough I brought my bikinitop and wore that and my white jeansshorts. I almost passed out everytime I just saw someone who wore regular jeans, I can't believe how they did that!
Anyways, it was hot and I think I drank like 2,5 litres of water that day. (Thank God to the nurse-bartender that let us have free cool water if we just bought a cup for 4$. "I'd rather give you free water and let you be alive, then see you pass out here later. It's hard for me as nurse seeing all these dehydrated people")
Bands with female singers rock! It just gives a whole new dimension to rock/punk music which is really cool. The singers in Paramore and Meg&Dia are both so tiny, and it's amazing that such big voices can fit in there. Paramore is sooo good. If you haven't heard them yet then you really should concider it. They're new album is called Riod. I haven't heard Meg&Dia before I got to the warped your, but I really like them. They have both a female singer and a female guitarist/backup vocalist (We got a picture with one of them, not sure which ne though...) Red Jumpsuit Apparatus was amazing, and we stood in the front line. Right before they were starting to play though, I had to get out of the crowd since I was about to faint. I tried to sit down for a minute, but it was so hot on the ground that it was impossible! Dehydration and low blood pressure isn't the best combination I guess, but I drank somemore water and went back into the crowd, no problems fpr the rest of the day. They sang Atrophy, Face down (love) and some other song I don't remeber the names for. "This was supposed to be our last song, but since you're so energetic you'll get two more". That's when they started playing Guardian Angel and the last piece of the puzzle was put in place. That song is one of the most beautiful ever written. Memories connected to it, both good and bad, flew through my head and I just sang along while I was crying. It was a good thing I wore my sunglasses. My make-up was all messed up afterwards, but it was totally worth it. Cute is what we aim for were really good live (I bought the cutest t-shirt with them, pink, obviously) but one thing was really annoying. You see, right in front of us, at the spac between the audience and the stage where all the guards were there was a plektrum lying on the ground, either left-overs from Red Jumpsuit, or from CIWWAF, and Nikki asked the guards if she could have it. They hesitated, but said they'd pick it up in one minute. Along comes a lady walking there passed the stage, sees it, picks it up, and leaves. The guard tried t tap her shoulder, but she didn't notice and just kept on walking. Were standing like one metre away and couldn't do anything!
We saw Sum 41, but all people were discussing was wheather Avril was there too watching here husband. Bad Religion was really good, haven't heard them before. After a whole day filled of EMO-kids, heat, awesome music and atmosphere, and running through sprinklers to cool off, we were ready to leave. At a gas station we ran into a couple of guys. This is the conversation summoned.
"Did you guys just come from the warped tour?"
"yeah"
"Which was your favourite band?"
"Hmm...Paramore!"
"aaargh"
"why??"
"We're Killerswitch Engage"
"no you're not!"
"no we're not.. We're Boys like girls"
"NO YOU'RE NOT! :O"
"right.. we're Paramore"
"You're mean... who are you? Are you a band?" *We're getting embarrest, what if they really are famous!*
"Okay, now we're ebing serious, we're The Almost"
"Well, I'll just get a picture with you then, then I can check it up later"

Nikki gets her picture, and it's hilarious! Nikki's doing a popper-pose, and right before the flash goes on he leans over and kisses her cheek. The expression on Nikki's face is just wonderful.

I slept on our way to a hotel, we ended up at Super 8 or something. We each took a quick shower, watching the end of The last kiss, and the beginning of Little Miss Sunshine before we fell asleep.

This morning we went to Lincoln för shopping. First we went to Platons which was all like cheap designer clothes, but basicly just one of each. Seven-jeans, Abercrombie and Fitch shirt, Striped skirt, Teal shirt and a blue lace tanktop was what I brought with me from there. Then we went to the mall, spent like hours in Charlotte Russe, I just wanted everything there! Like the cutest tops ever. Bought a purple top, a black/white one with bare back, and a wonderful silverish dress that I might wear for Winter ball. I'm glad I bought a dress for Homecoming, then it's just prom left! I really likes the store Wet Seal, and then we had to go home. It's a ood thing we're probably coming back Saturday. We went to Nick's house and started to watch Hot fuzz, it was weird.

Nightie all my friends
Love Pearl