holy fucking shit you guys. Yesterday=best day of my life. ever. period. the end.

Warped tour was AMAZING times a million! I'll try to put in all the details but i'm afraid i may skip to the really reallly really FUCKING AWSOME PARTS OK??

alright. Well Carly, Andrew, Ashley, my mom, and Andrew's friend branden all piled in the car...got doughnuts...drove forever...got lost...waved at other warped tour people driving there...screamed to the used, got lost again, blah blah.

(skips ahead to the actual tour)

We pull in and start waiting in line and then we saw all these people taking their studded belts back to their cars and we got kind of pissed because basically every single person there was wearing a studded belt and last year they were allowed. So we all took ours off and me and ash started piling them up around our necks and on our arms and stuff. Branden was trying to get his off and it got stuck in his belt loops so he was like spazzing out and he tried and tried for like 6 min. My brothers finally like "dude do you care if i rip these pants?" because we were getting close to the front of the line. so my brother grabs his belt and pulls as hard as he can and lifts the kid off the ground it was so funny. (Branden is really short and really small) and all these people are cracking up. and he finally just breaks his belt and the metal pieces go flying and we're all cracking up and the kids pants are all falling off. It was pretty great. So we drop those in the car and warn a couple crowds of kids about the belt thing and go back to our place in line to wait. Anyway this guy is walking around with his bands demo in a cd player and my brother listens to them on the headphones. And then the guy turns to me and he looks at my shirt and he's like "oh the used..." (I was wearing my bert is my homeboy shirt as a tribute to the used since they werent gonna be on the tour this year. I also wore my hot pink eyeshadow) so anyway the guys like "oh the used....um..." and he puts his hand up and "whispers" in my ear (everyone with me heard) "word is on the street that they're playing here today at 4." and i completely started to....die. yeah thats the word. and i was like restraining myself from hugging this dude. and i'm like "What do you MEAN word on the street?? This street??? What street?" and yeah i was like babling. i forget what else i said and i was like "omg buddy you have no idea how much i love you right now." and yeah we talked for a while and then he left to go make other people listen to his music and i freaked out some more. So yeah we're waiting in line to drop off our backpack when my brother turns to me and he's like "Britt! do you hear that?" and i listen and i was like "holy shit. are you hearing that too???" and ashley and carly's eyes get wide and andrew goes "Thats maybe memories." and we all start swearing and my eyes are like filling with tears because im missing the used so my moms like you guys need to run. I'll get the bag you guys run now! so we all run to the gates and the boys get thru first and me and ash and carly are waiting in the girls line to get checked for guns or something (lol) and its taking forever so we cut in front of a line of girls in the next line and get in finally and we run in there and start running down the ramp and we get lost in there and we have no idea where we are going. and we are all running so damn fast and screaming so loud. all these people are staring at us and then these 2 older guys with WICKED long dreadlocks are like "are the used playing now?" (they saw my shirt) and i told him we heard them so they start running with us. We get halfway around the place when i can't breath. And i had to stop because i thought i was going to throw up. So yeah that sucked really bad and i almost started crying. We lost andrew and branden and those guys with the dreadlocks. i was like "you guys im so sorry. i can't run anymore. i can't breath." so we walk for a while and finally find our way outside and we find the blow up thing with the bands on it and there it is the used: 4:45 PM. I have no idea WHAT the hell we were hearing but every single one of us heard "maybe memories" plus other people in line.

Anyway we all sit down and try to calm ourselves and we see that we missed Matchbook Romance completely and that Story of the year was starting in 10 min. So we went and found the stage and started pushing thru. We ended up right up front for them and i had my hand on the gate so that was a good way to start off the day. They were good. Nothing like really really spectacular or anything but yeah they were def. worth seeing. They did those flips and did all the cool stuff with their guitars and stuff. They did "until the day i die." and my favorite song by them "Anthem of our dying day" and it was pretty cool. Not too many bruises in there except one big one on my leg. That and i got my nose ring stuck in this girls hair in front of me and i was like freaking out. If she moved her head it would have been hurting so...bad. So i just grabbed a chunk of her hair and pulled it out. Yeah that was close.

After that we found my mom and the guys and walked around a bit. Umm....what band was next...oh yeah we walked around for quite a while bought some stuff and we went to watch the casualties. My mom really wanted to see them (how cool is that?) They were damn good. Their crowd was tiny and they have the coolest hair ever lol. Their drummer is hot too hehe. So yeah we watched them and then their speakers fucked up and started squeeling really bad and everyone in the place was covering their ears because it was so freaking bad. So we left and walked around some more and andrew bought a used shirt. We got some free crap and then went to watch some of Anti-Flag. They were very good and played a really good set. I didnt get in the crowd though because i was dead tired from the heat and the first crowd. So we just watched from the side. Then Sugarcult started up at the stage next to them so me and ash were running back and forth between the stages so we wouldnt miss our favorite songs. We had to run from Sugarcult doing "Pretty girl" back to anti-flag when we heard "Turncoats" then back to sugarcult again. it was pretty nuts. So then the Bouncing souls started up on the stage where Anti-Flag was playing so we all pushed our way to the front so we could already be there for when the used started (after the bouncing souls) Their set was okay. Im not a big fan tho so i didnt really know any songs. Plus they had their distortion turned up SO LOUD that you could hardly hear the music. So they end and we're all excited for the used and then we see the people setting up New Found Glory drumsets and we're all like ummm. what the fuck is up with that? Turns out they switched time slots and they never changed the blow up thingie. So we left because we didnt want to watch them that much and walked around a bit more. We bought drinks and sat down on the ground at the other side of the parking lot and i layed down and after a while ashley starts hitting me and she's like "Britt get up" and i was like "uuuugh what?" "Its bert. bert is over there." and i thought she was fucking with me because she'd done that a couple times earlier lol so i just ignored her but then i looked up and saw her face and i knew she was serious so we all jumped up and holy fucking shit. Bert was standing right behind a fence next to us. he was with a guy from the bouncing souls and getting bud light out of a big truck thing. So i ran over and grabbed ahold of the fence and we were all saying his name and he turned around and said something to the guy and and then walked around and came out and he signed stuff for us and took a bunch of pictures and he was so fucking awsome! He signed my hand and ashley's pants and a couple ticket stubs and my god he was so hot lol. It was bert! He wasnt supposed to even BE THERE AND HE WAS! When i had my picture with him i put my arm around his neck and put my head on his shoulder and i was playing with his dread locks lol. It was so awsome. It was heavenly. So he saw other people coming and he's like "oh i gotta go" and he left and i screamed "Bert i love you!" as he turned the corner lol.

Okay so after that everyone went nuts and was calling people on the cell phones and hugging each other and telling random people walking by and it was pretty cool. Everyone went to get drinks but me and carly stayed behind to make sure that nobody else came out to get beers and we just sat on the hill and we were both shaking and carly was crying and we just kept hugging each other lol it was pretty bad.

okay you guys i'm leaving for florida tomorrow morning to go see chelsea and davey and jess! so i really need to sleep. You'll just have to wait for the rest of the story about me meeting a certain other member of the used...um oh i dont know...lets see it starts with a "Q" and ends with a "uin" hehehehe. Also meeting the guitarist from the casualties and then seeing the Used play live!!! I'll type that as soon as i can. until then check out the pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~the SO FUCKING LUCKY britt.

(dont have time to make links sorry. just copy and paste in the toolbar)

my brother with bert:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/GCevilqueen3/warped%20tour%2004/warped3.jpg

ash carly and me:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/GCevilqueen3/warped%20tour%2004/warped1.jpg

the casualties onstage:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/GCevilqueen3/warped%20tour%2004/0463753-R1-E001.jpg

bert when we first saw him:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/GCevilqueen3/warped%20tour%2004/0463753-R1-E006.jpg

carly quin and me:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/GCevilqueen3/warped%20tour%2004/0463753-R1-E014.jpg

ashley, carly, bert, me (my brother and branden in the background):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/GCevilqueen3/warped%20tour%2004/0463753-R1-E010.jpg

my brother and quin:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/GCevilqueen3/warped%20tour%2004/0463753-R1-E015.jpg

carly ash, guy from casualties (dont know his name i feel so bad!) and me:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/GCevilqueen3/warped%20tour%2004/0463753-R1-E016.jpg

my mom and bert:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/GCevilqueen3/warped%20tour%2004/0463753-R1-E009.jpg

andrew and bert:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/GCevilqueen3/warped%20tour%2004/0463753-R1-E011.jpg

my hand signed by bert(its a heart and a "b"):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/GCevilqueen3/warped%20tour%2004/0463753-R1-E012.jpg

more pics soon!