ACL 2009

This past weekend was Austin City Limits music festival at Zilker Park. ACL brings in 65,000 music lovers every year for a 3 day festival filled with Austin local artists, shops, restaurants and over 50 bands! Usually ACL falls on a Texas football weekend, so Trae had never attended the festival and was super excited! Friday was a great day: high 70's, blue skies and great music (think Kings of Leon, John Legend & Reckless Kelly). THEN on Saturday....the rain came. This made what WAS a lovely & dry festival, a wet and sewage-smelling mud festival.

BUT... the festival must go on!!! We still had a great time and came home relatively clean compared to some of the Woodstock-wannabe's diving into the Dillo-dirt. Yep "dillo-dirt". Google it. It's the sewage & compost based dirt that the hippie Austin planners used in Zilker park to grow the lovely grass that quickly disappeared when it rained and 65,000 people danced on it. YUCK.

After it's all said and done, Trae and I decided that we will continue going to ACL....when its not raining. :) We had a GREAT time jamming out to bands we love and finding new bands we will add to our IPod. Also, we got the opportunity to hang out with some friends in town just for the occasion!!!