Most of Our Crew
Top (Left to Right) Derek, Gabe, Rich, EJay, BJ, D-Ray
Bottom (Left to Right) Juice, Matt
Rich and I headed up after I finished work. The plan was to crash at Maynard's place for the evening before heading to the Fest. We received a key call from Patty not to eat when arriving in Eau Claire because she was going to grill. When we arrived there was a feast for 10, but it was just Rich, Maynard, Patty and I. Maynard asked not to get a foil pack of potato's because he's just going to eat meat. Well after finishing the 12 pack that Rich grabbed in Eau Claire after before dinner was over, we all decided to head to Eddiesİ for some more. Maynard took his own "outfit" because he was going "just for a couple". After the Minnesota boys had to play 4 (or was it 3) games of pool Wisconsin rules and were undefeated, Maynard realized it wasn't just a couple. We heard some interesting stories, embarrassing for people in both "outfits" (you had to be there to hear them). We ended up closing Eddiesİ down just before 2:30am. Pretty late night.
After showering (not together) Rich and I headed to Stanley for Groceries and Beer. We arrived at the campgrounds around 11am, and we had cracked our first beer by 11:10am. After getting most of the site set up and some games of washers Damon showed up and Rich and I supervised him while he set up another tent. Not too shortly after I was drunk. Gabe, Dom and Megan then showed up too. Again we Rich and I supervised while Dom's tent was setup. I believe at some point we went up to catch a concert or two, most likely Diamond Rio and for sure Neil McCoy. Gyro's we're in order for this concert, as was par for every night at the fest. After I was split from the group (either lost or too drunk) I went back to the campsite for a night cap. While I was at the campsite Rich met some imaginary 34 year old woman.
Pre-Concert:
Everyone was up early waiting for the fellas from St. Louis to show up. Much grilling was done before 8am and Megan cracked the first beer at 9am. Seriously. So needless to say Rich, Gabe, Damon and I were soon to follow suit. After a few it was time for the day of the washers. Washers was played from about 10:30am - Dusk. The dominant washer team that Rich and I are were paired the whole day against all challengers. We managed to win 1 game out of I guess probably 6 or 7. Washers is pretty pointless without a good wager, so Rich and I managed to win a free tab at Buzzy's. While the ultimate bet was won by Gabe and Damon. Rich and I lost a key game that made us suck up to Matt from the moment we saw him until we woke up the next morning. BJ and Dana showed up sometime around 6pm or there, while we were holding down the campsite. Sometime shortly there after Juice, Derek and Matt showed up. Let the sucking up begin. Rich took the podium first. After a little talking Matt was wearing his dirty wife-beater and told Rich "I must look like a dirty mexican", Rich chimes in "No you don't matt, you have natural beauty", a crash could be heard as I fell to the ground assuming the fetal position laughing my ass off. Matt natural beauty my ass. This lasted for over 10 minutes, I mean me in the fetal position. After a slow recovery we, the boys from St. Louis started drinking and talking. Matt mentioned how big the omelets were at DJ's the little gas station in Cadott, I said "Yeah there as big as your head, but Matt I'm sure you could make 'em bigger", then we heard the infamous Rich Snort. It was fun, well needless to say that last for quite a while. We all got a little drunker and decided to head to the concert and catch the end of Martina McBride and for sure Tim McGraw. This concert was really fuzzy for me, but I assume it was all good.
Post-Concert: (Attack of Chief Hairy Back) I'm concerned to go into details about the post-concert, certain parties may incriminate themselves. I'll say what I feel comfortable with and we'll leave it at that. Where to start, our party ran into some women that a person in our party new from the outside world. These women having too much to drink and us also meant for a lot of debauchery. There were somethings said, some things done that gave us all a huge laugh the next morning and some of us regrets. The party of women was led by Chief Hairy Back, the Huge One with String, and the Niece. The Niece (who after consensus was the least hideous) ended up in a vehicle, luckily no condoms were to be found. Unfortunately others had regrets, two people from the party headed back to their campsite too make sure they made it to bed alright I'm sure. A certain member of those two was lucky enough to find out why her nickname was Huge One with String. Enough said.
After a sweating through Friday, Saturday was even hotter. Stories were told about Friday's Post-Concert and many a laugh were had. The whole group was finally up and Dom and Megan headed to a hotel to get out of the sweltering heat, while the rest of us headed to Stanley. After grabbing a couple of more cases of beer we headed to Buzzy's for burger. For me this is when I checked out, I was completely dehydrated so after eating I missed the next couple of hours at Buzzy's by sleeping in BJ's car. We headed back to the campsite and I laid in my truck for the next couple of hours with the AC on, then finally got out to see what was up. The fellas were sitting around talking and drinking, I laid in the grass for a couple more hours, then the contest started happening. Matt's a competitor, so he wanted to see who had the most ass hair (fortunate for us Joe wasn't there), they kept rolling, the contest. Soon it was who had the most toe hair, chest hair, who could do the most pushups (congrats to me), etc. Dana was always the Judge. Sorry about that. Mixed in between the contests was the Ultimate washer tourney, since there were 8 of us we teamed up and had a hog off. All the losing teams had to participate in the 40 Race. We all had to stand in a line and drink the 40 without letting it leave our lips within 2 passes on the line then the last place team would have to finish it with the last person drinking all that piss warm beer that was left. It was fun, but brutal. After the race and contests some of us headed to see Brad Paisley, we came back to meet up with the other fool before heading back to see Alan Jackson, somehow while we were gone Huge One with String showed up at our campsite. We managed to ditch her at the concert though, have you no pride. Once she was lost we all met up and fortunately, there was no Karaokee at our favorite beer tent because Rich and I lost a washer game where would have had to perform. Alan Jackson was really good, compared to other shows of him I've seen, after the show we headed back to our campsite and who was there, the entire Chief Hairy Back posse. Some of us saw this and turned right around. Eventually after hitting a few different parties we headed back to the site and they were gone. Our neighboors started a fire and it was someones birthday from thier site. Personally taking on the responsibility of drinking her Blackberry Brandy, I got loaded and sat around the fire with Damon and "The Hot Neighbor" until 4am, then went to bed.
End of Trip for me, Damon and Rich stayed til Monday though, I left at 7am the next morning.
Derek taking advantage of a new can coolie.
Matt what is that on your chest? I honestly have no idea.
The best looking guy at the Fest with sleeve on his head.
Damon, why don't you give us an hand and go sit over there?
This is the most action Rich has gotten since Y2k.
The hottest cat there, and Dana.
I think they are smiling because they just won at Let's Hide the Salami.
Tailgating? Poor Dana.
Matt this picture sucks, why did you take it?
If you haven't been to Buzzy's shame on you, I was only there a half hour, but atleast I was there.
Another one of Matt's pictures, but its inside Buzzy's.
Pass out time, after Buzzy's.