So this past weekend my mom, dad, sister Emma, my cousin Ian, and I went to Schaumburg, Illinois for a three day indoor jam. Friday Morning we slept in really late, finished packing and loaded up to leave. It was a ton of fun because Ian is one of my favorite cousins and we always have a crazy time when we are together, so Ian and I sat in the back and Emma sat in the seat in front of us. And what else are two teenagers gonna do for 2 hours? Watch Toy Story #1 of course!!
We laughed like a couple of 10 year olds and at one point my mom turned around and said "what are you two watching back there!?! " assuming that we were watching somthing that we shouldn't have been. ".....Toy Story.." was our reply. all she could do was laugh. We stopped at A huge gas station/ rest stop thing that went over the highway, and got lunch, it was pretty cool. After lunch we all decided that we needed COFFEE, so we went to the starbucks and all got some :) Emma hasn't ever really had coffee but since she was the only little kid with us mom and dad let her get some.
When we Finally left there was only a little ways left until we were at the Hotel that we would be staying at. It is HUGE! We unloaded the car and went to our room and unpacked and less than Five minutes of being there we already had the instruments out and we were playing.
We then went downstairs to the main lobby thing and got tickets for the concerts and things, we went and saw who was playing instruments and what everyone was doing. At 7 O'clock we went and watched the concerts til almmost ten, there were a bunch of good people playing, and there was a really bass player that couldn't stand still and was moving all around :P
After the shows were over we went and talked to some of the people who preformed and got a Cd and had a group sign it. By the time we finshed talking it was almost 11 (time flys by SO fast at these things) and we were going to go get our instruments to start jamming when, our friends Nathan and Caleb, got there. Now, you have to understand that Nathan and Caleb are THE most SARCASTIC people you will ever meet in your entire life, and they are both crazy, so when you put both of them together at 11 o'clock at night and hand them each a banjo you know it's gonna get interesting! so we all went and got our instruments and went back down and started playing music,we played until a little after 2 A.M , and then decided to go get dinner somewhere, that somewhere being Steak and Shake.
So, my family and Nathan and Caleb went and had dinner, it was practically empty in there because it was so late. When we got back from eating it was 4:30 ish and Nathan and Caleb, went to bed, and my mom went to bed, but my dad, Ian, Emma and I all went back down and jammed some more until 5:30, and we only stopped because we were the only ones left playing by then.
Saturday, we got up at 11 and dad went and got breakfast while the rest of us tried to pretend like we were awake. Dad came back with Dunkin Donuts and coffee, and we quickly ate and then went back down to play more music, we played litterally all day, I'm not sure what happened, but when we started playing it was noon, and the next time I looked at the time it was 4.. somewhere in there mom had decided to take a break and go shopping, and at 4 she came back with food. We ate really fast again and then went back down stairs and jammed (are you seeing a pattern here? eat, jam, jam, eat, jam, sleep, eat jam, jam, jam..)
All weekend Emma was so excited to go swimming, so every once in a while she would come up and ask one of us if we could go swimming. Finally at 8 O'clock, we went swimming. We swam until almost nine, and then right as we were going to get out, my friends ,Chelsea and Cassandra, that we had been jamming with, came and swam with us. We played Marco Polo, made fun of the guy trying to look cool and buff in the exercise room, and did who knows what else, until after 10 when it got cold and we ended up getting out. From there, we played music with another family until almost 4 A.M. THAT's when things started to get crazy! Nathan went to bed around midnight because his singing group was playing a concert the next morning, and even though Caleb is in the same group he stayed up. Out of everyone we were playing with, almost all of them we teenagers. We would play and talk and play and talk, and we joked about the most random things, From "drinking naked" to playing dobro with the lid from the empty juice bottle. It was pretty crazy, but by this time, its the last night we are all extremely short on sleep, and honestly... we just didn't care. I think we sang every single song we knew, and at one point some of the girls even threw in some Taylor Swift... yeah :P
Even though Emma had a ton of fun she was SO tired she sat in the room with us for the last 3 hours saying "I'm NOT TIRED!" even though her eyes were closing and she was falling over in her seat. :P
Since Emma was so tired she couldn't play her banjo, which is quite surprising for Emma, so Caleb took it and started playing it like a dobro... Where he gets the idea to do the things he does... I'm not sure..but at 4 in the morning nothing surprises me.It was just after 4 when we started playing Marry Had a Little Lamb, and we all decided that was the cue that it was too late and we needed to go to bed. So we picked up all the instruments and went up to bed.
SOO many things happen Saturday night, I can't even write about them all because most of them we moments where you just had to be there, and had to be in a pickers state of mind at 4 in the morning! :P
Then comes the last day, Sunday, the saddest day, as you watch all the the instruments being packed up and carried out to their cars, and you see suit cases rolling out the revolving door. As you leave your hotel room and head for the big exit door, you stop and listen very carefully one last time hoping to hear the sound of a banjo string or the pluck of a bass, but it never comes. Everyone has left and the Jam has ended...
Even though the Jam ended we still hadn't eaten breakfast, so we went to Denny's and had some of there awesome pancakes ( I had white chocolate chips in mine) and nasty coffee ( I can't even pretend it was good). We finished eating and left.
There was a GINORMOUS mall right across the street from the hotel.. so what else would we do other than go walk around the mall. We went into all the stores we wanted, and one of our last stops was a candy store where I got Toasted marshmallow flavored jelly bellies and Coconut flavored Jelly bellies ( not Jelly beans mind you. Jelly beans are nasty, jelly bellies are awesome).
I stopped in a store that I had never been in before and was walking around, and I picked up this sparkly soap lotion looked stuff to see what it felt like and this girl that works there came over and said "um, if you aren't going to buy it please don't touch it," i said ok and she says " but if you like sparkles then follow me,". She took me over to this section where they had lotion, but it looked like a bar of soap then she said 'which arm?" and starts rubbing this lotion bar on my arm while she talks to me. Now, I could be exaggerating but I really think she rubbed it on my arm for five minutes, and after she finished she took the same kind of bar but full of sparkles and did the same thing. By the time I left my arm was really red and was a bit itchy. I found mom and looked at my arm again: " umm.. Mom is my arm supposed to be this red?" turns out I had an allergic reaction to the lotion and my arm freaked out :P
Once we finished our adventure at the mall, we left and headed for home. I fell asleep almost as soon as I got in the car and that was the end of our weekend in Schaumburg :)
Well, if you are still reading this then I must applaud you, that was a really long version of telling you I jammed all weekend and went to the mall :P Hope you liked it, I know I did :)
As if this post isn't already long enough, here's some more pictures from the weekend:
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