Ribfest 2015.

My goal was to arrive at Vinoy Park a good half hour before gates opened. After a pit stop for a gas fill up, trying to decide if my dress would withstand the test of the wind that ensued that day, and parking at the furthest away parking garage possible (I still have no idea why, Ben????), we took what we could get. We were ten minutes early to open. All bets were off when they opened the gates.  We were able to bee line for our general admission seats, after stopping at the drink tent to get our 21+ stamps, of course. #priorities

Front row seats were a big ole check off of my list and I could finally relax. Beer in hand and a cole slaw stain on my dress from a late lunch, I was ready for some country music by the time The Cadillac Three took the stage at 2:30PM. What’s great about Ribfest is that once the slew of performers begins, it actually goes pretty quickly. Michael Ray followed TC3 at 3:30PM (he was AWESOME), Chase Rice came on at 4:30PM, and then the whole reason my alarm was set so early on a Sunday AKA Kip Moore started the beginning of the end at 6:30PM. 

It was seven and a half long hours of staying in one spot, only leaving to take shifts for food and drinks. Ben is literally a trooper. I on the other hand, might just be crazy. This is hardly our first rodeo though. We once waited 10 hours to be front row for Eric Church. I’m telling y’all, we do what we have to do (or just what I make us do).