Besides getting engaged and seeing the Dave Matthews Band, Peter and I also went to see the first annual Firefly music festival in Dover, Delaware, July 18-22nd. How exciting for a major music festival to be in Delaware! It's probably the coolest thing that's happened to the state in years. By pure luck, I was able to cash out some of my hotel points to assist in a place walking distance from the site, which was way easier than camping and paying to use the showers (A+ thinking). I suspect this may never happen again, but it was nice while it lasted. A chronological rundown of what we saw there:
Friday -
- Blind Pilot (with only some poncho required due to rain! actually we got very lucky with the weather...)
- The Wallflowers (who knew they were still around?)
- Jack Daniels bus tour (pretty neeeeat, want to do a Tennessee bourbon tour run someday)
- OK Go (besides the ridiculous Flaming Lips, they get points for most amusing show)
(I do love me a foam thing on a stick)
- Silversun pickups (eh)
- Jack White (sound was off for the first two or three songs! and it drizzled! and he was barefoot? but pretty good show. People were tossing glowsticks which was neat, but apparently the next day, glowsticks were banned.)
Saturday -
- Moon Taxi (a second good moon-related band)
- Ra Ra Riot (one of our favorites - yay!)
- During a break we broke out of the festival confines for a La Tolteca lunch - much cheaper than inside!
- Michael Franti & the Spearheads (we saw him and his possee later in the crowd, and he is an absurdly tall man)
- Pretty painting break:
- Cake (yay trumpet dude!)
- Modest Mouse (they get points for having a tuba, and they were better than when we saw them in 2007, but they are just one of those bands where I still prefer the recordings over live...)
- The Killers (weeee fireworks!)
Sunday -
- lowercase blues (hometown band)
- The arcade room had a Jurassic Park table - they know their audience
- The Head and the Heart (SO GOOD)
- We took a nap in the forest while Bombay Bicycle Club was playing
- Saw multiple passes of a play banner with "welcome to carper country" written on it...okay tom carper, what?
- Mariachi El Bronx (a rapping mariachi band, ha! I love new things.)
- Gratuitious festival gear, hat on a hat edition:
- Death Cab for Cutie
- The Flaming Lips (fur-lined jacket in July, human hamster bubble, bubble over guitar frets...these guys are nuts)
- Black Keys (hadn't realized it was just two dudes! super impressive)
We drove back to Pittsburgh by way of some Amish country roads we don't normally traverse, and I forgot how cute that section is. Many a sign for interesting stops if we had the time... one sign said "Christ's Home Office" and another "Amish Stuff - Not just stuff...Amish Stuff". Ah country. But we had a date with the Turkey Hill Experience! I don't know how we got along thus far without knowing there was an ice cream museum on our way home, but I'm glad we finally stopped. It was full of way more interesting information than I had supposed, plus unlimited ice cream and iced tea samples...hooray!
The next weekend, I participated in the One Whirl Yoga Festival with my friend. Ultimately, we took five classes that day, and I got a free Lululemon shirt, which is impressive since they are spendy! At the end of the day I could just touch my toes, something I probably won't be able to repeat unless I do another all-day yoga festival.
The next day, Peter and I headed up to take a tour of the Harvest Valley Farms, where we get our CSA from. We missed last year's so it was exciting to be able to finally do it. We saw rows of lettuce and large onion drying machines, got to pick super delicious cherry tomatoes (and I am not a raw tomato lover!), and learned that border collies are useful for catching groundhogs.
Music, yoga, and local food - how lucky we are.
Friday -
- Blind Pilot (with only some poncho required due to rain! actually we got very lucky with the weather...)
- The Wallflowers (who knew they were still around?)
- Jack Daniels bus tour (pretty neeeeat, want to do a Tennessee bourbon tour run someday)
- OK Go (besides the ridiculous Flaming Lips, they get points for most amusing show)
(I do love me a foam thing on a stick)
- Silversun pickups (eh)
- Jack White (sound was off for the first two or three songs! and it drizzled! and he was barefoot? but pretty good show. People were tossing glowsticks which was neat, but apparently the next day, glowsticks were banned.)
Saturday -
- Moon Taxi (a second good moon-related band)
- Ra Ra Riot (one of our favorites - yay!)
- During a break we broke out of the festival confines for a La Tolteca lunch - much cheaper than inside!
- Michael Franti & the Spearheads (we saw him and his possee later in the crowd, and he is an absurdly tall man)
- Pretty painting break:
- Cake (yay trumpet dude!)
- Modest Mouse (they get points for having a tuba, and they were better than when we saw them in 2007, but they are just one of those bands where I still prefer the recordings over live...)
- The Killers (weeee fireworks!)
Sunday -
- lowercase blues (hometown band)
- The arcade room had a Jurassic Park table - they know their audience
- The Head and the Heart (SO GOOD)
- We took a nap in the forest while Bombay Bicycle Club was playing
- Saw multiple passes of a play banner with "welcome to carper country" written on it...okay tom carper, what?
- Mariachi El Bronx (a rapping mariachi band, ha! I love new things.)
- Gratuitious festival gear, hat on a hat edition:
- Death Cab for Cutie
- The Flaming Lips (fur-lined jacket in July, human hamster bubble, bubble over guitar frets...these guys are nuts)
- Black Keys (hadn't realized it was just two dudes! super impressive)
We drove back to Pittsburgh by way of some Amish country roads we don't normally traverse, and I forgot how cute that section is. Many a sign for interesting stops if we had the time... one sign said "Christ's Home Office" and another "Amish Stuff - Not just stuff...Amish Stuff". Ah country. But we had a date with the Turkey Hill Experience! I don't know how we got along thus far without knowing there was an ice cream museum on our way home, but I'm glad we finally stopped. It was full of way more interesting information than I had supposed, plus unlimited ice cream and iced tea samples...hooray!
The next weekend, I participated in the One Whirl Yoga Festival with my friend. Ultimately, we took five classes that day, and I got a free Lululemon shirt, which is impressive since they are spendy! At the end of the day I could just touch my toes, something I probably won't be able to repeat unless I do another all-day yoga festival.
The next day, Peter and I headed up to take a tour of the Harvest Valley Farms, where we get our CSA from. We missed last year's so it was exciting to be able to finally do it. We saw rows of lettuce and large onion drying machines, got to pick super delicious cherry tomatoes (and I am not a raw tomato lover!), and learned that border collies are useful for catching groundhogs.
Music, yoga, and local food - how lucky we are.
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