Vacation
So, I have a lot of things to say about my vacation in South Carolina but I think I'm gonna keep some of those thoughts to myself. So let me just tell you about my heinous trip (btw- heinous in this situation is a really good thing. Dave used the word a long time ago and I've just adopted it because I believe in this use for it)

We left Thursday way later than we planned (c'mon this is Tiff, Casey and I you're dealing with) We ate lunch at Maceb's, my sandwich was amazing. If you live in my area, ask me where it is because that place is amazing. Then we went to CVS for headphones, pretzels, and gushers. Then we were on the road. We listened to Showbread, Maylene and Showdown the whole drive and sang along almost the whole time. We stopped at this one gas station and the first thing we see is chickens running around in front of McDonald's so of course, Casey hops on her skateboard and starts chasing the chickens. Well then the hickest people pull up and the one guy starts eying these chickens hardcore. This guy has like 20 chicks names all down his arm and about 20 other tattoos and he's missing a toe. Finally after a while of Casey chasing them around the parking lot on her board this guy comes up and starts feeding them. He seems all nice for a minute then all of the sudden he gets real still and just grabs this thing by the tail feathers, whips it around upside-down and holds it by the neck and feet. This chicken is freaking out squawking and Casey is just watching in awe. Finally the chicken calms down and he lets Casey hold it for a picture... the picture is on myspace. So we're back on the road and back to singing... actually yelling,  Maylene songs.  We got to BackBooth, everything was cool with the guest list (thanks to Dave). This place was so completely packed, I don't know how people could breathe. We hung out in the back by the bar for the first two artists because we didn't know them, and really didn't care. The bartender in the back was practically yelling at us to "buy liquor, or beer" and then totally creeped Casey out and made her think he spiked her water (it just tasted like there was lemon in it or something). Finally Showbread came on so we moved towards the front. Personally, I don't really care about Showbread but they liked them so there I was. I have one picture of them on myspace. Then came A Static Lullaby, now let me tell you about that bassist; besides the fact that he looked ultra familiar, I think he was incredibly good looking too. Dane... I forget his last name, but I have fifty million pictures of him. The moshing during their bit was a little out of control, security had to dive in several times, some kid got his ass beat though. Then finally the main event, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster. I was front row for that mess, practically on the stage, I didn't want to miss a single view of that Dallas Taylor  :) Besides the fact that I friggin' love their music, I think Dallas is fun to look at. So me and Casey yelled every word of every song, Tiff told Casey to crowd surf and sing with Dallas so she did (pictures of that on myspace as well)  After the show we talked to Dallas and got some pics with him (one is on myspace) The whole show was so much fun, I loved it. Afterwards we took pictures in a dark alley haha. Then we left for Georgia. At one point Casey drove and totally freaked me out (I have a lot of driving anxiety, I trust very few people to drive me places) and then went South on the highway instead of North when we were trying to get to Georgia from Florida. We got there at like 3 a.m. or something, I took a quick shower and then me Tiff and Nick hung out and talked and tickled each others backs, lol. I think we went to bed at 6:30 a.m. Me and Tiff woke up around 9 but I didn't get off the couch until 10. Me and her did our hair and makeup and almost finished before everyone else woke up (there was only one bathroom so we wanted to make sure we got our stuff done before everyone else would be trying to get in there).  We had breakfast at this cool little art cafe place, of course we all had to try the sweet tea (besides Tiff because she had to be the special one, lol, I love her). Watching Casey talk to Dave on the phone was hilarious (ok here's why; the trip to South Carolina is Casey's surprise to her boyfriend Dave because they hadn't seen each other in almost two months and the band he is lead singer for [The Showdown] is playing in the Anti Mother tour and he doesn't expect to see her) Casey is NOT a good liar. You can always tell when she is up to something so it was just funny to watch her try and lie about being back home in Florida talking about having to go to work later that night. The trip was also supposed to be Tiff's surprise to Cody but that got kinda messed up due to a malfunction with the "mute" button on Tiff's phone. So any way, after "brunch" we head back to Nick's to get our stuff and head off for South Carolina. Savannah, Georgia is beautiful by the way, we all loved it out there. At this point Casey is getting so antsy and stoked about getting to see Dave and she's trying to rush us all out of the house ("trying" being the key word, she did take all our bags out for us though in attempt to make us go faster). Overnight Tiff got a ticket for her expired tag (she had the sticker in her purse the whole time) so we stopped by some ticket place and got it voided. Tiff ran a red light and stopped at a green light (I guess it was opposite day) and almost hit about  5 old people on the crosswalks that day too. Finally we got out of Savannah and back on the highway towards South Carolina. I think we slept most of that trip especially since me and Tiff only got a couple hours of sleep the night before. When we got off the highway we were so confused and Casey was freaking out and we were way behind schedule and we thought we were getting lost and we're all calling people trying to tell them to go on mapquest or something and tell us where to go. We were going the right way the whole time and the more we figured that out the more excited we all got, each street closer that we found we would all start screaming and get even more riled up. We found like the last street and we all just went friggin' crazy yelling and screaming. We parked and about flew out of the car and just ran to the venue (Music Farm, incredible place) We got to the door and the one guy was a total jerk. Then Casey thought that Josh saw her in the window and started freaking out and then Tiff started calling Josh like crazy to find out where Dave and Cody were and he kept not answering then I think he finally answered and said he was busy (he totally wasn't, he was chillin' out on the balcony watching everyone set up stuff) then finally Cody came up to the door but the bouncer guy (jerk face) wouldn't let him open the door so he had us come around the other side to another door. So we got over there and he opened the door for us and we were all hanging outside and Casey is still freaking out trying to figure out where Dave is, she stopped everyone to ask where he was and finally Josh went to go get him. Dave comes walking around the corner and Casey goes running at him (almost took out this one guy) and jumps on him. He was super surprised to see her there, it was good. He said he knew she was acting funny but he couldn't figure out what it was. So after we hung out for a while longer, Dave, Casey, Eric, AJ, Josh, Chris and I went to a taco bar for dinner. We sat outside, it was pretty cool. Josh, AJ, and Eric were torturing slugs with random dinner stuff like lemon juice, hot sauce, and I think they found some salt. Me and Dave discussed the different Monster flavors and their descriptions on the back of the cans. Then the only picture we took their was of me and Casey in the tree next to our dinner table (ironically, Dave took the picture [the irony is that the guy who gets up on stage is the one behind the camera taking pictures of the two watching him on stage]) we went back and chilled at the venue for a while. Me and Tiff went back to the car and I got my purple Monster (Cody offered to give me a green or blue Monster but purple is where it's at for me) When it was The Showdown's time to come on me and Tiff went upstairs to watch. Cody wanted us to come backstage but we didn't really want to. Backstage isn't as exciting as it seems. It's not where the energy of the show is directed so it's not that much fun. Once the Showdown was done we went back to the merch table during Haste the Day. At some point I ended up at the merch table too and played with Tiff's hair for a while (if you knew her, you'd understand the significance of that) and admired Norma Jean's merch guy (Tiff told me he wants to make out with me, I just busted out laughing and told her not to tease me with such sayings. she did go over and talk to him about something but I have no idea, I think they were talking about the little girl head banging upstairs the whole show) once Norma Jean came on though I stood up so I could see them, now I'm kind of short so standing up didn't do much for me so the hot piece of merch man next to me over at Norma Jean's side had me come over and stand on the merch bins with him. They put on a great show, everyone did a good job that night. So after the show we stayed until all the set up was torn down. Tiff and I (mostly Tiff) talked to Wes for a while (Norma Jean's merch guy). Cody, Tiff, Eric, Chris and I went out to the bus to wait for Josh and AJ. There was a whole story there but it's not my story to tell. We got back to the hotel and I immediately took Chris and Tiff's car to Taco Bell. We watched A Nightmare Before Christmas (yeah, we're hardcore like that haha) and then knocked the crap out at like 4 a.m. We woke up in a mad rush because we woke up like two hours late and then sped the whole way back to West Palm. Just to give you an idea of our rush; when Tiff drove it was like 83-87, then I drove from 87-107 usually around 95 though... all through a 65mph area. We got to West Palm in decent time though, I got home and knocked the heck out.     

This trip has reminded me of just how much I absolutely love Tiffany and Casey!