To say that this weekend was an adventure would be an understatement!  And dominating the weekend of adventure was none other than the Carolina Metalfest in Enoree, SC.

Tessa and I got up that morning and got ready for the all day event and made it there by one in the afternoon.  We took her brand new 2011 Nissan Juke and had to park it in the mud much to her dismay since she had just bought the car on Thursday!

The terrain only got worse on our way to the gates and the stage the latter of which was on the top of a 30 foot hill of, you guessed it, MUD!  Had it rained that day it would have looked like a redneck Woodstock!

The day started with some technical difficulties which took out the side stage leaving the one main stage to host all 15 bands (WRITTEN IN BLOOD and DIVULGENCE had cancelled).  The first band, BLACK HAND THRONE didn’t take the stage until nearly 3 pm so every band had to cut their sets down to 25 minutes which not all bands honored.

However, despite all the difficulties and setbacks, the show was actually a lot of fun and very entertaining.  There was a dunk tank to raise money for breast cancer research in honor of Jamie Browder as well as inflated slides and bounce houses for the kids….like ME!  There was also food vendors like Fuddruckers, Sexy Taco and Diggers BBQ so we had plenty of food!

Unfortunately, the fun had to be cut short as the cops came and shut us down before 11 cutting WHISKEY MOUNTAIN MACHINE’s set out entirely.  It was a disappointing way to end the night but it left us with some fond memories and quite the story to tell!

Oh but wait, there’s more!

When Tessa and I got back home, she got her keys out only to realize that she didn’t have her apartment key.  The reason for this is mostly my fault because I asked her for the key which was actually my spare key which I keep in my car for convenience when I have to run by the apartment on the run and I want to leave my car running.  She had tried to find her key earlier that day which she had given to Lauren while we were on vacation so she could feed our pet rats but she never put the key back on her keychain.  We didn’t find the key because we didn’t have time to keep looking. 

Before we left I had to run back into the apartment to get my car keys so I could grab my lawn chairs.  I used the spare key to open the apartment, grabbed my keys and got the chairs then put my keys back in the apartment since I wasn’t driving then locked the apartment with the spare key then, not thinking, locked the spare key in my car so it would be where I would later need it as usual not realizing I had just locked us out.

When we came to this realization, I called my apartment office and left a couple of frantic messages in the afterhours lock-out voicemail box.  After an hour of waiting, we decided to drive down to Simpsonville and stay at the local ‘love shack’ since it was cheaper than getting a locksmith to pop my car.

The next morning, we checked out of the motel, got some brunch then went home and got a spare key from the office.  It was time to rest and tend to my bald head’s first sunburn!  OUCH!