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Oh man, I saw the Beastie Boys at the Sasquatch festival on Saturday!! It is so crazy to think that I have been listening to them since I discovered License to Ill when I was 14 years old! They put on such a hot show and they're so funny! I really wanted to see them here in Seattle on Friday but I guess it sold out in like 14 seconds or something, but it was in a super small venue which would have been really, really cool. Anyway, they were decked out all styly and crackin jokes to each other the whole time. Rarrrrrrghhhhh! I love em!! They played a combo of brand new stuff mixed in with a couple super classics and a lot of Paul's Boutique.







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cool eh? Oh and if you love their music now, JUST WAIT til you hear their new album coming out soon. All instraMENTALly.....ssssoooooooooo good! My favorite song they played was one I had never heard before that is going to be on their new album. It's pretty amazing how they keep re-inventing themselves in such a completely original way that makes you want to terrorize the sound apart with the whole of you. mmmhmmm!

What's grosser than gross?

Hahahahhahaha! Gross huh? Wait! There's more!

A new discovery! Ghostland Observatory!!!!!!!!!!! They make me wanna boogie and bite you!!!!!!!!! They were there also. We found them playing after we dug into garbage cans finding and collecting cans to recycle and turn in for free goodz Yes, there I was in my bikini top under the hot, hot sun with andnowmiguel. He dug 'em out, I sqweeeeeshed 'em! Got scratched in the process



In return we got a skateboarding dvd, an Inconvenient Truth book, stickers and a

. Weird. But cool

So the weather on Saturday was warm and really nice. Not too hot, not too windy. The concert was sold out actually. We went with our friend BriooooooooOoo and his little muffins and my seester and her 4 leetle muffins. And of course I brought my one so very awesome, not quite so little, muffin. It was a campin' extravaganza. We have the sweet spot that we keep going back to, right on the water and totally free. Not to mention that hardly anybody knows about it so it's pretty much the same people every year and hardly any at that....and NO! I won't tell you!

Anyway, the concert was a lot of fun and we ended up waiting til the last minute (that would be me) to buy our tickets so we picked 'em up from a scalper at the show for $125 a piece. A lot, huh! But worth it. They had been going for $200 but I charmed him with my beedy beedy little eyes and we made off like beastie bandits. Luckily!

Ozomatli sounded great too, I hadn't seen them for a long time. Also good was Neko Case who I love.










After we finished RECYCLING (woohoo!), we cooled off in the refreshing mist area And then again and again and again and again all day.

Lots more concert pictures so only click if you're not dial up or have a lot of time to waiiiiiiiiit.

Before we went to the show on Saturday we all hung out by the water and played around. It was a beautiful day all day. We were going to go again to the show on Sunday but were hit with the biggest wind storm I have ever been in. This coming from a girl who LOVES the wind, that's saying a lot.

I just couldn't leave my sister with 7 kids and ditch her without a car or help and it's a good thing Miguel and I stayed because the wind lasted all day and night with gusts of almost 70 mph!! It would almost knock me over at times. We couldn't set up the barbeque and 2 of our tents gave out. Luckily we brought a couple of spare tents because we ended up really needing them. My sister has 2 year old twins and they were having a hard time of it so she needed to stay with them in the tent at all times which made for a long day for her. Miguel and I worked hard re-assembling, feeding kids and problem solving though we did get a nice nap in the middle of all of that.

My daughter at one point was trying to help us move blankets and tripped over a piece of re-bar sticking out of the ground, cut her foot and then got a really bad nose bleed immediately after. The wind was making the blood go everywhere and the babies were crying and she was crying....yeah, that was a little hard. We got her all fixed up though and my sister ran to the park with all the kids to give them a deterrent of just staying in the tent all day. The park location turned out to be just as windy though so she came on back, but first stopped at the corner market and heated up a bunch of warm food so that was good at least. In the end we found a location to move our tents and blankets on the other side of a big cliff and out of the wind, right as it was getting dark. The two older kids and Miguel and myself went back and forth getting 3 tents with warm bedding set up and then helped all the little kids and my sister over. They were all pretty cold and wind shocked by the whole thing by that time but warmed up and fell asleep super quick after getting out of the wind.

The reason we waited so long to move over to that spot was that for one, there was a big sign that said 'absolutely no camping beyond this point' and also because we just kept thinking the wind would let up. We would have just packed up and gone home only one of our group's vehicles was at the concert and there were too many of us to fit in the van. Anyway it must have gone on like that for 12 hours or more. When it was all over, though it was pretty crazy at times and uncomfortable some of the time also, everyone agreed that it was at least a crazy adventure.

Longest post ever maybe...? Someday when I I'm old and my memory isn't what it used to be I'll be happy I took all these pictures all my life. Hope your computer didn't put up a fight.



I sure would like to thank the nice person who sent me the beautiful, hardback book, 'Treehouses of the World'. I love it! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

xo
Blyss