This happened to be me and my friends first phish show. It was 7.23.99 at  Polaris in Colunbus.  Me and all my friends decided to head down to Columbus the night before the show to party and check out the scene.  As soon as we arrived there we were greeted by tons of phellow heads.  We picked out a sight and started partyin. After getting thoroughly wasted (at about 3 am) some hippis that camped next to us asked us if we wanted to head over to a drum circle with them. We go and there is a group of about 100 people there and about 20 drums.The atmosphere was awesome.  After about anhour or so after that,  we head back to the campsight and everyone passes out except for me and joe. He asks if I want to go for a walk, so i say cool and as we're walking, some other hippies ask us if we want to go swimming. This sounds cool to us so we start to walk. Well we ended up walking for about an hour and a half and when we finally got to the water all we could do was sit at someones camp fire and have a beer with them. we finally realize that its starting to get light out so we decide to take off (without ever swimming). We start walking down the road and after about an hour realize that we have no idea where our campsight is. We see some guy wandering around and tell him our situation and we make a deal that we'd give him some brews if he could find our place.  Somehow within 10 minutes he finds our site. We open our trunk and tell him to help himself and we pass out instantly.We wake up about 1 and a half hours later (still wasted) and decide to try and sober up a little with a little swim. Fortunately we drove this time, and the water felt great.We get something to eat, wait for some more friends to meet up with us and make our way to the show.  Traffic ended up being horrible, leaving everyone in a bad mood, and only about 1hour to party before the show.  We check out the lot scene grab a couple brews, and start munchin on some shrooms.before i realize it I check my pocket and see that all the mushrooms are gone. Whoops i only wanted to eat about half since this is my first time trippin, but Oh well!  As we are walking into the venue, Joe (who still hasn't stopped drinking from the night before and ate his share of mushrooms) is getting hassled because he has no shoes. Suddenly right in the middle of being hassled he drops to the ground -out cold.We start to get a little worried that he would get us busted since we were a bunch of 17 year olds, but they just hall him into first aid give him some water when he wakes up, and sends him on his way (it ended up being a good way for him to get in the show).  While all of this is going on, i start to trip balls. I wig out a little and end up laying on the grass, staring at the clouds and listening to the awesome tunes for most of the 1st set.  Second set i came down a little bit and danced the whole set long.After the show we end up losing our friends, have no where to meet up with them so we head back to the campsite. we get pulled over going through the park, but he lets us go without any crap because it was my friend who was drivin's b-day comin up.  We get to our site take out our bottle of vodka and start chuggin.  Wko do we see rollin up? The same cop that pulled us over 15 minutes ago.  Luckily he doesnt see the bottle, and just talks to us a bit.finally about 2 hours later our friends from the show roll up. I still dont know how they found it or what happened, but everything ended up being all good.This was my first Phish experience, and although I've only been to one show since then, I plan on going on the whole tour this summer.Just thought I might share my show with all of ya'll, Hope you enjoyed. 

Peace-
Chris

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