Warped Tour 2006

So I'm packing... right now... leaving... basically right now! So before I leave you for a week and half of flippen sun, beach, and possibly a little wakeboarding if I'm lucky, I thought I'd leave you all with some pictures of me kicking off my holidays at Warped Tour in Calgary.
Word cannot describe... utter... shear.... bliss.... amazement.... gloriousness....
Besides being stuck in traffic for two hours, then deciding to ditch my car and walk with a good couple thousand other warped tour treckers (p.s- we really did look like some kinda concentration camp deal.... at least 3/4 of the were dressed like death (black, fishnet garbs, pale with black makeup... the usual.... i was in white with flip flops), walking along a dusty, barb wire lined road filled with miles of buses with craploads of crammed people... sun... beating... down.... swetT!!!) Anyways... besides that, and line-ups, and being randomly touched and hit on by random people... besides almost dying of thirst and having to dye while listening to underoath play my favourite song... that i was missing while dying... besides having to pull an "anorexic day" because food lines were hours... besdies all this.... IT WAS INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!... so I share.... please enjoy....




In these fine photographs we have:
*Beth and I on an uncrowded hill (no really it's quite uncrowded and wonderful)
*A little bit of crowd...
*A little MUTEMATH upclose and person! Best show I've ever been to!! They were so rad! All over the place... so talented... front row... played his guitar... felt the swet... got a drumstick... really could have talked to them after the show, but was too shy..... incredible!!!
*A little "AFI" half way back from a very nice, random guy who plopped Robyn uptop him for the show because of her obvious height defecit!
* And Finally... a Little Underoath! Screaming and going nuts as for usual! I love it with all that I am.... haha....
(So many other band pictures I want to show... so little time... BC calls my name)

This is an UPDATE!!

Soooo.... how's it going? How's life people of the internet?
Anyways. Just got home from an incredible weekend of camping in Banff with 4 of my dearest friends (cheers to Jenn, Steve, Darren, and John.) It was great to get away from the "real" world for a couple days.
I'm a mountain girl. I can't get enough of them. A now matter how many times I see them... their beauty just blows me away. I meen have you looked at a mountain lately? They're flippen huge!? I meen who does that? How? Wh-...?
Anyways. Few little highlights for yah.
Last night, just as the sun was setting, we decided to take a little hike down to the hoodoos. Well, Darren and I decided to take a road less travelled...
Whilst the other three headed up a gentle walking trail to "look" at the hoodoos... Darren and I traversed, lept, bounded, and butt scuttled off the trail and down the cliff to the hoodoos so we could feel them skin to rock. It was flippen awesome... holding your life in your own hands. If you slip... your gunna careen over the cliff into the river hundreds of feet below... or hit a tree before you do so. Get's your heart racing at least.
Scampering back up the side of the moutain was a little more difficult, but I found some handly fir tree plants that I could grasp on to. We made it. I usually do.... no worries...
I had quite the "julia moment" earlier that day. Took everyone to a wonderful glacier water lake tucked just outside of Banff.
Sun was out, sky was clearn, but there was no way I was there to roast on a beach and get skin cancer... (i'm not one to sit around... i'm very active... especially when it comes to water)
Key word: killer rope swing, hidden from the public, on the opposite side of the lake.
Equipped with massive tree slightly bent over the lake, you can get wicked height and speed when you jump off from halfway up the trunk. It's awesome!
Well. It was all grande until my last jump. I was soaring... had some killer height... feeling the wind in my tresses... released the rope... beautiful drop... about to plug into the waters depths, when... what's this?! A rope... between the legs... kinda burns ALOT! Then... WAHM! I hit the massive knot at the end of the rope. Um I think my new swimsuit just ripped open... my butt split into two... and I'm bleeding everywhere! Oh mother!!
Well at least I was an enteraining article for the tourist familly from France that was watching me, as well as two random guys from Calgary, and my friends. But my friends are used to my "julia moments."
Needless to say, I was in fact bleeding from rope burn down my legs and a little up from there. I reacted with a laughing fit, like I usually do, then, decided to swim across the lake to relieve the pain.
Anyways... All in all it was a grande weekend of much squirrel chasing, and playing with fire...
Ill never sleep in a tent again. Slept beside the fire, under the stars for the first time this weekend. No tent... just pure tree and air, and beauty. It was incredible! Try it!
Layed looking up at the tops of fir trees and past that twinkling stars and the milky way... just talking to God. Reconnecting with him. Basking in the beauty of his creation.
I find nature is also where I can connect with God so hugely, just cuz it blows me away like he does, and I see him in it everywhere I go.
Anyways... I better go. I'm alive! And I'm getting all four wisdom teeth RIPPED out of my jaw tommorow. So if you see me in the next week... i give you permission to laugh and take pictures at my huge face!...