We woke up to go to breakfast, and it looked sunny as hell outside, so I dressed accordingly (my Future Corpse shirt and leggings). Pammie was like, ‘Check the weather in case it’s cold bc we’re walking there.’ 49°?!

I threw on the Beetlejuice hoodie Christine and the kids got me from Bait bc it was crisp as fuck outside 🥶

Dashboard Confessional – Screaming Infidelities

Well as for now I’m gonna hear the saddest songs
And sit alone and wonder how you’re making out
But as for me, I wish that I was anywhere
With anyone making out

Dashboard Confessional – Vindicated

Vindicated, I am selfish, I am wrong
I am right, I swear I’m right
Swear I knew it all along
And I am flawed
But I am cleaning up so well
I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself

Dashboard Confessional – Hands Down

Hands down, this is the best day I can
Ever remember, I’ll always remember the sound
Of the stereo, the dim of the soft lights
The scent of your hair that you twirled in your fingers
And the time on the clock when we realized it’s so late
And this walk that we shared together

I haven’t seen Dashboard Confessional live since they played Street Scene in SD 20+ years ago! Seeing this girl in the front row crying on the jumbotron during their set is a core memory for us that we still talk about to this day 😆 He’s got a little salt in his hair now, but Chris Carrabba still looks and sounds so great.

Lord Huron – Wait by the River

If I can’t change the weather
Maybe I can change your mind
If we can’t be together
What’s the point of life

Lord Huron – The Night We Met

I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you
Take me back to the night we met
I don’t know what I’m supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you
Oh, take me back to the night we met

I saw Lord Huron at the inaugural Innings Fest in 2018 (and several times before and after that). Pammie saw their set and was like, ‘What is that? A stove?’ It was a jukebox 🤣 The first time she saw them with me, she was trying to tag them in her insta story and was like, ‘How come I can’t find them?’ And I looked over at her phone and was like, ‘Well, they’re called Lord Huron, not Lady Huron.’ 🤣

Needless to say, she left their set at the side stage early to grab us seats in the VIP section at the main stage for Twenty One Pilots. So I stayed and watched the rest of Lord Huron’s set and silently cried by myself. Just kidding (I was sobbing pretty loudly).

Twenty One Pilots – Heathens

Why’d you come? You knew you should have stayed
I tried to warn you just to stay away

Twenty One Pilots – Drum Show

He’d rather feel something than nothing at all
So he swerves all around as his head starts to fall, turns it up
Stuck between a rock and a home
Two places he does not want to go

Twenty One Pilots – Ride

Yeah, I think about the end just way too much
But it’s fun to fantasize

I haven’t seen a crowd at a festival this massive since ever. Twenty One Pilots fans are wild!

We did a shit ton of walking – to breakfast, to lunch, to the festival, in between stages at the festival, and back to the hotel after the festival. Your girl clocked 18K+ steps!

We saw a lot of people with their kids at this festival – young babies in strollers even!

Unsolicited opinion: Get a fucking sitter or don’t go at all. As someone who doesn’t have kids, who am I to judge, but I am judging you hard. It’s cold as fuck at night, it’s late, and people are smoking weed everywhere. If I can smell it, your kid can, too.

Our hotel was pet-friendly, but I’m not gonna bring my dog when I’m gone for most of the day. I left him with my dad who loves watching him and sends me pupdates:

I missed this clingy nugget, though 🥹