the week leading up to this year's austin city limits music festival was nothing short of dramatic.
ebola hit dallas.
as in, a couple of miles away from my house.
not stressful at all.
then we learned that some siblings at ben's school had been exposed at some point to the dallas ebola patient and were asked to stay home from school for the next twenty-one days.
time to panic? possibly.
the day before the festival a storm hit dallas and downed a million trees causing major power outages for daaaaaays (which affected eveyone i was going to austin with).
then, as if to send me on my way without a worry in my heart, ben threw up the morning i left.
school was cancelled. the lights were out.
ebola, ebola, ebola.
gord lord in heaven, the universe made me work hard for this weekend away.
but with the support of my husband to push my mommy guilt aside, i hopped in the car with three of my best girls who had also packed in the dark.
bye, dallas.
hello, my favorite weekend of the year.
(i didn't bring my camera this year and barely took any with my phone. so these pics are random and most likely stolen from friends).
best road trip partners:
em, kelly and marcy. this ain't our first rodeo. i probably can't count how many times the four of us have been in a car together on a road trip. we've got it down to a science.
kelly brings chex mix and everyone's happy.
this year's joke was that if one of us came down with ebola, we would all have to be quarantined to marcy's car for twenty-one days.
best in show:
OUTKAST, OUTKAST, OUTKAST.
that show alone was worth the price of my ticket.
love.
worst college gameday experience:
that moment i realized our aggies were gonna lose the same time i realized i drank too many bloody marys.
double ouch.
(this is what thirty-five and hungover looks like)
best new-to-me artists:
it's a tie, childish gambino and turnpike troubadours.
one rap, one country.
this is the main reason i love a music festival.
best decision of the weekend:
it's often hard to make a good decision after spending all-day with your friends, watching aggie football, cooking out, throwing back beers and bloodys. but we (chance, jason, em and kelly) win a prize for a) deciding take our drunk butts to the festival for the avett brothers and b) hiring uber to take us there and back.
viva, uber!
best bad decision:
a top-of-our-lungs group sing-a-long to hits from the nineties in the wee hours of the morning. we were outside. becky's next door neighbor has a baby. party foul. a really fun party foul.
best duo:
it's a no-brainer that big boi and andre 3000 win this award, but the runners-up are hands down, rebecca and joni. best friends since the dorms, these girls traveled from mcallen and denver to austin to see each other at acl. all is right with the world when they are together.
best laughs:
provided by jason. that is all.
best hostess:
as always: becky. we don't want for a thing when we stay with her. i can only wish that guests at my house feel half as special as we do at becky's.
i've been doing this acl thing for many, many years now and this year is tops. laughter, music, friends, laughter, laughter, laughter, music, beer.
f*&$ ebola.
love,
coco
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