Hangout Day 3: We survived the rapture

By day three I was feeling it. We had been standing pretty much all of day two. My body was sore and I was tired. We decided day three we would take it easy. We didn't care where we stood, and would just try and see as much as we could. Our day started in the The Boom Boom Room. And we discovered the biggest secret of Hangout: awesome air conditioning! The tent wall on the right have five large air conditioners AND it was next to Sweetwater Brew Co. tent!   First band up was Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights. Kind of funky psychedelic 1970ish music. I love the back up singer, she has an awesome Afro and even better voice!

Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights

My outfit on day three was very low key, black bathing suit cover up dress, however, the festival favorites were out in FULL FORCE. I snapped a picture in the Boom Boom Room of this lovely lion. What you can't really see is her leopard friend right behind her.

I am going to find out where she got her outfit so I can get one for next year.

By far my favorite from day three was OCMS! They sounded great, played all of my favorites and a new song. The crowd loved them. While waiting for them to start I ran into some DBT fans. The guy was wearing a shirt from the Athens Homecoming show this year that I dragged the FH to. DBT was playing after OCMS, and I have seen DBT three times before so I passed this time around, but I heard later they ROCKED the BOOM BOOM ROOM!

OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW

After starving ourselves the day before, we decided that we were going to eat AS MUCH and AS BAD as we wanted on the last day. This meant: cheese fries, funnel cake and lots of Sweetwater. After OCMS, I was feeling "under the weather" so we found the awesome hammock area with the misting machines and chilled while Matisyahu started his set. After I started feeling better we wanted to check out the crowed for Matisyahu, so we went to the Megadrop. The Megadrop is that carnival ride that takes you straight up and drops you. It was so awesome, Brianna L screamed like a little girl. I almost lost my funnel cake. But it was well worth it. Briana V really wanted to see Amos Lee so we went to the main stage. There was NO ONE there. I know Amos Lee through my mother (shocking, yes I know). Amos has a chill sound, great lyrics. We pulled out the trusty queen sheet. Set up shop in the sand and I took a NAP! No offense to Amos, but the conditions were right and I was in desperate need for some zzzzz's.

Super close to Amos Lee

Feeling rejuvenated after my nap, we went back to the Boom Boom Room. The tent was PACKED for Girl Talk. I just wanted to dance, and dance we did. Girl Talk is fun. Just pure fun. We were all the way in the back but LOVED it. Even when the kid two over from me threw up on the guy in front of him, no one seemed fazed, they just kept dancing. And that is the power of Girl Talk.

GIRL TALK!

What you can't see: toilet paper machine, confetti, all the people up on stage!

Girl Talk was INSANE!

After dancing our hearts out we got a nice open spot in the back for Black Keys. This is the only time I couldn't hear the band from the back. People were chanting for them to turn it up. And they didn't play the whole set, which was a little disappointing. But I did get to hear my favorites, "Everlasting Light," "Next Girl," "Howlin for you," "Tighten Up," and "I'll Be Your Man."

ALL THE WAY IN THE BACK for Black Keys.

Rally for Black Keys, you should have met my dancing partner next to us!

Finally it was time for the main event, Paul Simon. We decided to dig out a seat int he sand and settle in. The people in front of us had their two kids, like 4/ 5 years old with them. I'm not 100% sure I would want to drag babies to this festival, but whatever floats your boat. The light up hula hoops were out in full force. So were the glow sticks. It got really cold around 10pm and we headed for the shuttle home.

Sitting in our sand couch at Paul Simon!

I had an awesome time at this festival and can't wait to go next year. Spending the weekend with two of my favorite people was great, the music was great and the venue was great! If you ever have a chance to go to Hangout you should totally take it!