Headed out to Canberra this weekend with my cousin and his friends for Regrowth music festival. The drive is about 3 in a half hours and we left around 7:30-8 Friday night. First we stopped at Woolworths (grocery store) to pick up some food for the weekend (you camp out in the sticks), then of course we had to hit up the bottle shop for some "juice" :P. After all the jazz was complete off we went! Not a bad drive, it was raining the whole way. Got to the campsite just in time for one of the girls that was in the group to go perform with her group (close call!). Watched her first and then set up the camp site. She was playing a jam band, and it was a kind of open mic thing. Anyone could grab the mic and spit some lyrics if they pleased. The evolver lounge was were this all took place and cool little tent with lots of couches and stuff to lay down on and just chill, real hippie stuff. Not much action on the Friday night, after the camp site was set up everyone went to sleep. Woke up Saturday morning and it was still raining :(, luckily we had a tarp that we tried to trees and made a little common area space with mats to sit on. A pretty bad ass set up if you ask me. Granty, Leila and I headed into town that morning to grab some ice, since no stores were open last night. It was Nicki's (Nikki is a really popular name in Aussie) birthday that day so we got some bubbles, face paint, candles and some cookies to celebrate later. Had some yummy crepes with caramelized apples/pears and nutella spread for breakfast. Yea we eat like royalty when camping, no big deal (just wait til you hear what we had for dinner!) Hal, Nicki and Leia all took a snooze while Grant, Jonathon and chilled in the "living room/kitchen." Had some snacks and started to drink a little later on. Everyone woke up about 3 hours later and then the party had officially started. Threw some lamb chops on the grill for dinner (Royalty, I tell ya) with some corn/potato and coriander salad, DELICOUS! By then the rain had stopped and we headed out to the festival to listen to a band called OKA, very different band/dj. They use the didgeridoo and some other instruments along with some dj beats. I liked them a lot. Then some really good unknown DJ's followed. I'll list them and their music below so you can take a listen too! We partied all night and I honestly can't tell you when we all went to bed! It was so much fun, everyone is so friendly (everyone is a HIPPIE)! The star at night were amazing!!! Such a clear site and so many of them! Nicki showed me the southern cross and the scorpion. The southern cross can only be seen in the southern hemisphere, and the scorpion is huge! All I wanted to do was just stare at them. I kept thinking about that scene in the Lion king where Pumba, Timon and Simba are laying down staring at the stars and Simba said that his father told him that stars are fellow people looking down on you. In this case I said hello to my grandpa and Lizzie. I couldn't help but smile :) I know both of them are doing great up there! Gramps is probably sitting with all his new friends watching tennis and golf friends, and Lizzie she definitely schooling people in soccer, like the star athlete she was and infecting people with that smile and laugh of hers! I could not sleep that night, from being up all day/night my legs just wanted to keep on dancing and moving! Finally got a few hours of sleep and then it was morning. No breakfast the next morning just a early lunch, some rice with a veggie stir fry. Also so yummy for camping food! I'm taking many notes! That day we took it easy and just went into the festival to listen to some music, then walked to the look out spot. The festival was in a valley, so you hiked up the hillside and could sit and see everything around you. It was just trees everywhere, absolutely gorgeous! After hanging out there for an hour or two we headed back down to relax before dinner. I took a lay down, since I barely got any sleep the night before. Not clue how long my nap was, but I woke up for some dinner and it was so cold! The temperature had definitely changed :(. Not feeling the party scene I decided to go curl up in the tent and relax. ended up falling asleep again. Everyone except Lelia and I went out to the festival that night. Everyone came back to the tent for some hot tea and I had woken up but just had no motivation to venture out into the cold! The next morning we got up and just went to walk around the festival, I wanted to get a henna tattoo, so that was my mission. Finally tracked down the henna artist and mission complete. Went back to the campsite back up our stuff and headed out around 3PM. Stopped to eat some lunch in a town caller Groublin, not the best lunch but it was cheap. Got back to Sydney around 7. There were NO showers, this was legit camping! So the first thing we all did was SHOWER! It felt so good! Not showing did not really bother me at the campsite though and it was so nice to not care about technology! Spent he night at my cousins, had some Indian food for dinner and then woke up the next morning and walked to Newtown. I am volunteering at a Wildlife park Wed-Fri and needed a pair of "work" jeans, so I found an Op show (thrift shop) and scored a pair of jeans for $6. While wandering around I found a nice shop with some really cute top and shorts on sale, got a pair of white high-waited shorts and two crop tops for $50, best deal yet! Made my way back to Saint Ives and then just hanging out until I have to leave for the Wildlife park at 6:30. It is called Walkabout wildlife park, and Cassie and I actual went there for the wine tour we did on Valentines day! I'm super excited to get getting some good work in! This weekend is Future music festival! I'm so excited to go! Hopefully my cousin or Rihanne will go with me otherwise I'm going by myself, which I have no problem with. It would be easier, wouldn't have to worry about losing a friend when I got to the bathroom or anything, and I'm sure I'll meet some people to tag long with if needed!
Here are the Dj's I was talking about!
- Oka (
http://youtu.be/VgB0IK0N0m8)
- Snareophobe feat Dup Princess (
https://soundcloud.com/snareophobe)
Unfortunately there are no mixes with Dup Princess on his profile, but she was amazing! Had a reggae tone to her and snag while he played beats, I wish I would have recorded it!
-Monfly (
https://soundcloud.com/monkfly)
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