Oregon Country Fair 2009 - Thursday
Despite rain on the final day, this was the best Fair I've been to in 3 years of performing at OCF.
We took off from Portland on Thursday afternoon. It was a boring drive but we made it with friends, which always helps.
Check-in and load-in were relatively smooth, though I did make the mistake of leaving my I.D. with the cart booth before showing it at check-in to get my all-important bracelet. I swore that this year I'd get a photo ID, but the line for photo ID's was at least an hour, always, and between practices & performances I couldn't seem to get away for that long. It sucked; the wristband fasteners kept catching on the girls' costumes when we stunted with them.
Aspen had set up a tent previously for me & Dutch. We got all settled and then did a run-through of our routines on Stage Left. It was the perfect time for mosquitos to provide an eager and intrusive audience... we were drenched in DEET but the mosquitos were so voracious that they kept piling up anyway. It was a nightmare trying to hold poses while watching mosquitos piercing the other performers, and feeling the vicious little beasties biting me as well. I hate mosquitos. I think that mosquitos and sharks were evoluntionary mistakes.
Then we walked around a bit and relaxed. The Kazum performance superceded the dress rehearsal for the next night's fire show, which was frustrating. It ended up being okay, though.
Noah camped with us behind Stage Left, along with Naia and Aspen and our amazing guitarist from M4. We were close to Nanda's campsite, too.
I didn't stay up too late on Thursday - maybe 1 or 2. It was a nice, fairly early night for me.
We took off from Portland on Thursday afternoon. It was a boring drive but we made it with friends, which always helps.
Check-in and load-in were relatively smooth, though I did make the mistake of leaving my I.D. with the cart booth before showing it at check-in to get my all-important bracelet. I swore that this year I'd get a photo ID, but the line for photo ID's was at least an hour, always, and between practices & performances I couldn't seem to get away for that long. It sucked; the wristband fasteners kept catching on the girls' costumes when we stunted with them.
Aspen had set up a tent previously for me & Dutch. We got all settled and then did a run-through of our routines on Stage Left. It was the perfect time for mosquitos to provide an eager and intrusive audience... we were drenched in DEET but the mosquitos were so voracious that they kept piling up anyway. It was a nightmare trying to hold poses while watching mosquitos piercing the other performers, and feeling the vicious little beasties biting me as well. I hate mosquitos. I think that mosquitos and sharks were evoluntionary mistakes.
Then we walked around a bit and relaxed. The Kazum performance superceded the dress rehearsal for the next night's fire show, which was frustrating. It ended up being okay, though.
Noah camped with us behind Stage Left, along with Naia and Aspen and our amazing guitarist from M4. We were close to Nanda's campsite, too.
I didn't stay up too late on Thursday - maybe 1 or 2. It was a nice, fairly early night for me.
Labels: 2009, kazum, OCF, Oregon Country Fair
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