nothing could go wrong...

So I drove to the show and everything was picture perfect. We got there around 4:30 and set up shop. I got the grill out and set it up and got that baby fired up, next we pulled out the cooler and the old pig skin. We had parked right next to some of our friends from UD and so we had a large number of people so we could easily find our spot when we wandered around to look for other people and to check out the tailgating scene; you never know when you will see someone who has perfected the tailgate so well that you can observe and enhance your own tailgating skills, unfortunately this was neither the time nor the place to gain tailgating knowledge.

After the charcoal started to get white and we threw the football around for a while, listening to our favorite pearl jam songs on the radio, we decided that we needed to start cooking. Thankfully one of the kids that I brought with me was one of those guys who is always running the grill. Its always nice to have a guy like that who you are friends with, cause manning the grill really can be a pain at barbeques when you have people who want to eat at different times during the day. So Rich was in charge of cooking and when the first batch of dogs and burgers were cooked to perfection, i grabbed the buns out of the car...No actually i left the bag with the buns, ketchup and mustard sitting on my kitchen counter. How could i have possibly forgotten these essential items. Although it was a minor detail that would not ruin the day, the food would have been much better if we had buns. Not two minutes later, my friend dropped my sunglasses off of his head and shattered the lens; i was beginning to think that this day was going to be filled with flaws, so i reached in my pocket and made sure that i still had the tickets. Thank God i still had them so i just tried to put these bad things out of my head and just remembered that i was going to be in rocker heaven in less than an hour.