Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending my third music festival: the three-day extravaganza known as Governor's Ball.
JUST LOOK AT THAT LINEUP. I bought these tickets months ago, and I've been psyched for the concert ever since. Both my roommates were going, and we all had plenty of other friends to meet up with at the shows. And then something horrible happened.
For a few days leading up to the event, we knew it was going to be rainy on Friday night. We were prepared. We swapped our pre-planned tank tops and shorts for leggings and rain boots. What we didn't expect, though, was just how this was going to impact the rest of our weekend. I left Friday night after Of Monsters and Men with two of my friends, while another two stayed behind until they closed the island early due to really awful weather conditions (wind is dangerous, y'all!). With blisters on our heels, mud covering our rain boots, and cold wet clothes freezing us to the bone, we were overjoyed to see sunshine on the forecast for the next two days. But it slowly dawned on us what a night of rain meant to a dirt field: THREE DAYS OF MUD. All grossness aside, we made the best of it. And on Sunday, I decided to make a game out of it: Things You See At Governor's Ball. Think of it as an anthropological study of festival goers - their wardrobes, their behavior, their ridiculousness. Without further ado, I present to you my findings. After the jump!
