Home from Rainbow Trout

August 18, 2014 - 6:54pm - by admin

which is easily the best festival that Manitoba has to offer

both in terms of the amazing (seriously, amazing) music and the overall vibe that lasted the whole weekend.

John and I rolled in around 6pm Friday and had enough light to set up our tent while dripping sweat, crack a few beers and hop in the river next to the campsite

where we goofed off and floated around and pulled ourselves together at dusk to head down to the stage

where we danced and kissed like fools to amazing music played by super talented people

a handful of which were dressed like the Village People

and met up with Alex and Adam

and had the time of our lives.

Saturday was filled with more river-sitting, beer-drinking, singing along, open mics

and even more amazing music which included a late-night performance by one of my favourite weirdo musicians, smoky tiger

(who played this masterpiece and it was glorious)

I couldn't have asked for a better weekend or a better way to wrap up the summer.

Thanks to Ben Jones, the volunteers, and all the musicians who made the weekend such an incredible experience.

Bravo.

Going to Rainbow Trout Music Festival tomorrow

August 15, 2014 - 4:02am - by admin

which will be my first year going and I'm excited as hell.

We spent the evening running around getting stuff ready

in-between eating sandwiches on croissants

laughing in back alleys

walking all over this damn town

holding hands.

Right now there's laundry in and I'm drinking a beer and watching John learn a song

but shhh don't tell him I'm watching because it might make him weird

because this is adorable and I don't want to ruin it in the moment

so I'll just capture it in a blog post instead

of course.