acl awards 2013

{let me preface by saying that the security nazis at the festival are super strict about anyone bringing their nice cameras into the grounds.  we decided to leave ours behind this year, so i have very few good pictures of the festival itself.  thanks, instagram for making my iphone pictures look cooler than the originals.}

and here we go, in no particular order:

the best pre-festival tradition award goes to the giant burgers at casino el camino.  

friday morning we leave dallas in enough time to make it to casino for lunch, where we build a good base for the billion beers we are about to consume at the festival.  it's necessary.  and delicious.

the best-effort-by-a-pregnant-lady award goes to my friend becky.

not to be left out, my five and a half maonths pregnant friend ordered a virgin bloody mary.  super spicy.

the best fesival baby award goes to smiley-face lenox.

her momma and daddy scored last minute passes and experienced the festival for the first time as parents.  not to suggest for a minute that it was easy, but lenox helped them out by smiling, dancing, napping in the stroller and high-fiving strangers.

the dumbest-idea award goes to whoever suggested playing the trust game.

if you aren't familiar, the trust game involves falling backwards (or in jason's case, forwards) and trusting your drunk friend to catch you before you hit the ground.  in this picture, jason wisely chose his wife to catch him.  i note, she did not ask the same in return.

(pardon the outfits, baby was asleep inside, so we took the dance-party, beer-drinking, trust-game playing shenanigans to the garage.  it was cold, y'all.)

the school spirit award goes to me and marcy for our super-cool matching chairs.  

don't hate, congratulate.

the best homecoming award goes to joni.  

after taking a year off from the festival last year, joni and her husband came down from denver to participate in festival festivus.  any reunion with joni is a good one.  she hugs for a minimum of five whole minutes, not caring a bit if you aren't a big hugger (ahem).  her joy is infectious.  and this is why i love her.

best hangover helper goes to sweet leaf green tea (mint and honey).

this is not new news.  it never fails.  and considering marcy and i were trying to win some sort of contest all weekend of who could still drink the way we did in college, sunday was dedicated to rehydrating.  by the way, we tied for first.

best show-that-i-actually-have-a-picture-of award goes to phosphorescent.  he is fantastic.  that is all.

other favorites of the weekend include: vampire weekend (the.best.), passion pit (dance party), the cure (duh), dawes (presh).

the best surprise award goes to the cold front that graced us on saturday night.  

thank the lord.

the road-tripper award goes to suzy for driving up from corpus on saturday to see us off to the festival and to welcome us back when it was over.

i love you, suzanne. 

the best hostess award goes to becky g. for spoiling us rotten during our stay.  

seriously, the best.

also a big thanks to marcy, for driving back to dallas super late on sunday night so that i could get the kids to school and go to work on monday morning.  i am glad you got to see a little bit of your boyfriend (......lionel richie......)

austin, you did it again.  

xoxo,

coco