exo day!

ok so it's time to blog about exo day.

lots of fun!

got to sydney showground around 12 as the gates were opening and parked, but had to wait for youth group people to get there before we went in so we could group and get the extra ticket we needed. there was me, ree, laura, liz, jemimah, jess and matt in our crew, and kato, ty and harves came with the youth lot. ended up getting in close to 1pm and we decided on a meeting point and then split up. our crew walked around a bit and watched some of the motorcross and then went and saw playjerise play (really good!) and danced around a bit on the grass after (to the exo day radio which involved some evermore and other things) while we decided what to do next.

can't really remember what happened then but i think we went to the ampitheatre to see the nubian gents 'cause danielle who we met with at playjerise wanted to see them and jess wanted to go with her so we went, but then we decided to grab lunch instead, 'cause some people were hungry. so we went back to the grassy area and bought food and sat and ate. fun times.

a bit after 3 we met jess at another tent thing to see freedom one play (acoustic) but there was no space in the tent so we kinda hung around outside and talked for a bit. then after they were done (around 3.45 'cause they came on late) a stack of people left so we quickly got in and found some space on the floor to sit, and a bit after 4pm switchfoot came for a q&a session. was really cool. seeing them in person was a little odd, but quickly got over it. after that we followed them down to the signing area 'cause we weren't sure where it was, and on the way i turned around and matt was talking to chad (drummer) so i said hi, and laura came over and got a photo with ree, matt, chad and me :)

and then we got to the signing place and there was a huge queue. Laura found some of her friends in it so we joined them :P and i got matt to buy me a poster and some buttons (badges?) while we were there. and then he asked to borrow $5 and i found out later he bought his own poster and had found a friend further up in the line than us, so he pushed in there and got his signed before us :P typical matt.

so i got my poster signed by all of them and drew and jon signed the back of my shirt :)

by that point it was a bit after 5pm and we said we were going to meet the others (youth) near the front gates (at the centaur) at 5 so we rushed back there and found that half of them weren't even there yet (or were buying dinner).

so we hung around and ate food and then sent matt and jemimah off to get in the queue for the floor and joined them later, and found it was more of a blob than a queue. so me and laura squished in next to them.

while we were waiting for the doors to open andrew called to see where we were so i turned around and saw that there was a bunch of people behind me who were looking at me and one of them had a camera out. and i heard a 'dang, she turned around'. so i turned back around. and then turned around again just to be sure. and they asked me to turn back, 'cause they were trying to take a photo of my hair. (i bleached and dyed the ends green).

and then they opened the doors and we proceeded to get quite squashed as everyone pushed to get it.

so lecrae was on when we got in there... rap kinda stuff. was ok, but i'm not really into that sort of music. then pillar was on. they were good, actually realised i knew about 3 of the songs they played which was fun. then the exo day band came on and there was a bit of worship and then reggie dabbs spoke and that was interesting.

and then....

oh yes...

switchfoot! and they were really good. got separated in the moshing from ree and laura and andrew who i was with, 'cause i was getting pushed backwards, but turned around and saw matt behind me, so we stuck together around the middle for a bit, before we decided to get closer to the front. and then laura found us a bit after that so the three of us spent the rest of the time together, moshing and singing and dancing and having fun :) and during 'on fire' i conviced matt to lift me on his shoulders (thanks to laura 'cause she said she'd lift me too). and that was fun! and at that point jon had gone off the stage and run around the back to the stands and i turned around and saw masses of people running after him. quite funny.

can't remember what the order of songs was, but i know they started with 'oh! gravity' and ended with 'meant to live' and in between was 'stars', 'american dream', 'awakening', 'we are one tonight' (with the beginning of 'the shadow proves the sunshine' thrown in), 'ammunition', 'on fire', 'gone' and 'this is your life'.

was really good. had heaps of fun. but the night didn't end there! after we dropped jess home, ree, laura, jemimah, matt and I went to thornleigh maccas (and found a whole bunch of buses from exo day there, so it was a little crowded) and had lots of laughs and food (and ate eachothers food) and more squashing of people and in-jokes (included matt's 10 year old wife and 14 year old daughter, and the photo laura now has of matt in her wallet) and throwing of ice and climbing under tables and sharing secrets with laura in the queue and more trying to pull out matt's rat's tail (and laughing at the terrible mix-up of words which caused him to say something rather bad but hilarious :P)

oh the fun. and photos are on my flickr if you wanna see :D

go here --> http://www.flickr.com/photos/8093613@N07/sets/72157601838983541/

so that's the story.