So this year was the first year I went to ACL for the full 3 days since 2007 and it was so worth the price even though I had to pay scalper prices. To be honest no ACL has beaten the 1st ACL I went to in 2006, but this one finally did. For the first time I actually stayed for the entire Sunday headliner band, I know many people who complained about The Eagles, but The Eagles were amazing and seeing Hotel California live definitely crossed something off my bucket list.
It is hard to say which day was the best, ever day was just so different. In my opinion Sunday won, it had the nicest weather, my sister and her boyfriend came, cell phones actually worked, and I saw Yeasayer, Rebelution, Flaming Lips, and The Eagles! I wish Flaming Lips played more song I knew, but that last song was amazing and will go down in my ACL history as one of the greatest moment. And then my parents showed up to see The Eagles, I bought them tickets for Sunday and they proceeded to only go for the very end (what a waste)! I have never seen my dad and mom dance so much, at the end we all danced with our significant others to Desperado. It was perfect, another greatest moment in my ACL history.
So I will be going to ACL next year, it is the 10 year anniversary, I am not going to miss it. I tried to get 50 dollars tickets and I seriously missed it by a couple of second, stupid group meeting! I will get the tickets that are going on sale next week. It is really hard to buy tickets when the line-up isn't even out, but I guess if it is really horrible (which is won't be) I can always sell them.
So now that ACL weekend is over, it is time to get some work done. This weekend my parents are coming to help me make my garage into a carport. The weekend after that Ray and I are hopefully going to Arlington. And then October 26th will be the start of a 6 day beam time, guess I won't be celebrating Halloween this year :(! I think trading Halloween for a PhD is worth it.
