2010

My last post finished with Friday night, we pick up with Saturday here.

We saw our friends' band, Kadet early in the evening. They were playing at the Apollo, their first time at parachute.



They were selected to play Mainstage on Monday morning, straight after Hillsong United (super big deal.) They were the best debut band, so had the awesome opportunity of playing to the full parachute crowd, somewhat diminished by the rain.



Awesome Ryan and Caleb!

Saturday night, Carey and I got really close to Switchfoot and enjoyed getting tossed around. I nearly lost my jandals a couple times.

They had massive birthday celebrations, including over 10,000 glowsticks that were distributed. After Switchfoot finished, a few people decided to toss their glowsticks forward. It erupted into a full blown spectacle of light bouncing up and down miraculously over the crowd. It looked like salmon swimming upstreaming covered in fluro, pretty awesome.

It rained hardout on Sunday, everything turned into a waterway. All our stuff was getting damp and juice from all sorts of meats and breads began to run through our chilly bin. We were going to hunker down, when at 12:00 that night, Jenny offered us a lift.

Johnny, the lead singer of the Primal band, our friend and her boyfriend, had artist transport from the camp to the carpark. It is over a kilometre up steep, muddy hills with gravel, that we'd had to have travelled a few times to take all our gear. Everything was sodden. The offer was way too good to pass up. Carey and I scrambled to pack everything in pouring rain. Being twins, we didn't hold our frustration back. It doesn't matter how much we abuse eachother, we will still be twins in the end. It's not like a boy/girlfriend or even a regular friend; you don't complete trust in the nature of your relationship. We do, so we got pretty ruthless as the rain poured down.

I slept all the way back and we arrived home at 3.00am Monday morning. I addressed the really wet stuff and then went to bed. I woke the next morning to find my parents had unpacked all my gear (I love you.)

Yesterday was an impromptu trip to Waiwera, to hang out with my old classmates from TDI. It was a great day, and the new kids in the class are cool. Had a great swim and spa; Carey and Allie jumped in the 'Lava Pool' of 48 degrees (previously occupied by old people, Eastern europeans and Asians.)

I've tied up a bunch of loose ends today and am looking forward to Primal tonight. Some more images of Parachute:


Hillsong United


Leeland