I wear my sunglasses at night...

Period 2 - Look through ipod and write down everyone I would want to see in concert.

Period 4 - Search every artist on the internet finding out when their concerts are.

Success. I'm pretty sure I've figured out what me and Jessi's roadtrip will be. And I'm stoked :)

Eye doctor today. Always a great experience. The eye "poof" machine. The usual 3 poofs in each eye. Not so much. We had 12 poofs in the right eye. And 10 in the left. Apparently I blink a lot. And apparently when you do it with contacts in, the data is not sufficient. Oh and I had my eyes dialated. Also wonderful. I couldn't read anything, and could barely drive home. When I got home I sat on the kitchen counter and watched my mom cook dinner...in my sunglasses. When I reached the mentality that I was of no use to this world with dialated eyes, I went into my bedroom and took a lovely nap. Emerging from my cocoon I had some dinner, watched Betty White on SNL, and now I'm posting my blog. Deck accomplished.

Merry Mother's Day

I slept in until 1pm today. When I woke up and walked into the living room, my cousin immidiately started laughing. On my neck was a black X. I had slept on my hand and it left an imprint. Very funny, I know haha.

Meryn drove home, well done sis. If you notice though in the picture, her eyes are closed.

She still has things to work on ;)

I called Jessi as soon as I got home to tell her all about the concert and hear all about prom.

I can't wait to show her the vids I took.

My mom and I walked over to Walgreens to rent a movie.

We watched Sherlock Holmes.

It was pretty good, way too long though I would have to say.

I love my mom. She's the one I know I can go to if I need advice, or just need to talk.

She understands my randomness and is crazy goofy just like me.

She's just darling, and I couldn't ask for a better mom :)

I'll make her happy now by going to bed haha

I'll be sleeping soundly tonight, acoustic Needtobreathe swimming through my thoughts...

[Even when the storm comes, I am washed by the water]

Tennis matches this morning. I got to watch Meryn, and the grandparents came along to watch!

The matches turned to rain, Meryn's opponents forfeited, and we headed off to see NeedtoBreathe :))

After goofing around town for a bit, we headed inside.

Meryn and I got huge X's on our hands to proudly display that we're under 21 haha

The boys found us and we all waited in line, but once we got inside I headed straight for Seth's side of the stage haha.

Seabird was up first, they were pretty good.

Then Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers.

They were absolutely hilarious.

The main singer was wearing a knit beanie with buttons, glasses, and a v-neck.

Perfect :)

He drank from a  coffee mug between songs, absolutely darling.

I would definately go see them live again, in fact, I'm already looking into it haha

Then Needtobreathe.

Bear and Bo kept coming really close to edge of the stage.

If I had reached out my hand, and Bo had reached out his, we would have touched fingers, and had a moment. That's just an idea of how close haha.

The moment the banjo started playing "The Outsiders" I couldn't stop smiling. My eyes even got watery :)

They were AMAZING.

Me and Bo made eye contact, and he smiled. They all smiled a bit while they sang, and you just knew they were having a great time.

I knew the words to every song, and sang loud and proud.

Seth was chewing gum and kept blowing bubbles during the songs, my mom and I found it quite hilarious.

He'd sing his line, then blow a quick bubble.

Then exited the stage, but we knew they'd come back for an encore.

And they did.

Starting with Hurricane.

And the crowd all sang along.

In the light of the morning

Can we change what we felt and heard

Can we turn it into the glory

Break the paths of our fathers before us

Though we stand on the outside

We will find what we once believed

And will crawl our way to the clear skies

Standing up we are

Standing up we are

"What a great song to end the night on," I thought.

But they weren't done :)

Next came Let Us Love.

One of my all-time favorites.

And another great crowd sing-along.

Let us love

Like we were children

Make us feel

Like we're still living

In a world I know that's burning to the ground

Give us time

To beat the system

Make us find

What we've been missing

In a world I know that's burning to the ground

I was practically yelling :)
So they must be done now, right?

No. Bear says,"We're gonna turn off all the speakers, and move up into the balcony so everyone can hear"

They rush off the stage, and climb the stairs up into the balcony.

A couple vacates their table for them and Bo and Bear stand on the bar stools with their guitars.

Bear puts his finger to his lips as the international symbol of "shut up", and the whole room is absolutely silent.

They begin to play Washed by the Water.

They get to the chorus, and the audience begins to sing along.

Not annoyingly either, just a nice background of voices.

Seth and Joe chime with the Cajun and shaker.

It was simply a beautiful moment.

It topped Prom in every way, no regrets :)