Third day at the festival. Got up early and spent several hours sitting at the camp site soaking up the California rays and listening to the Bunny radio (special radio station set up for the fest.) Phish did an acoustic set at noon “Broad Daylight” and finished the weekend with a double set blowout at night wrapping up with tweezer reprise – of course. Conners and I partied it up with some camp buddies – Tim and Ryan from San Diego. Pretty amazing event, so much fun I couldn’t believe it ! Do I have to go back to reality?

Phish crowd gathers for the last three sets.

90 degree Phish

Sunset in Coachella - gonna miss this view.

Festival 8 marker

Phi8h final night set from way back.

Heading into the final show.

Looking back at the trippy scene with the wheel, the burble and a laser dude.

The oil rigs were blasting to the notes. So cool.

The burble in all its glory.

Set I – Afternoon Acoustic Set:
Water in the Sky, Back On The Train, Brian & Robert, Invisible, Strange Design, Mountains in the Mist, The Curtain With, Army of One, Sleep Again, My Sweet One, Let Me Lie, Bouncin’ Around the Room, Train Song, Wilson, McGrupp

Encore:
Driver, Talk, Secret Smile

Set II:
AC/DC Bag, Rift, Gotta Jiboo, Heavy Things, Reba, The Wedge, Guelah Papyrus, Undermind, Sparkle, Split Open and Melt

Set III:
Tweezer > Maze, Free, Sugar Shack, Limb by Limb, Theme from the Bottom, Mike’s Song ; 2001 ; Light ; ambient jam ; Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore:
Grind, Esther, Tweezer Reprise

After a brief nap we were up for a full day of halloween fun and three full sets of phish. We had a blast people watching through out the day. Everyone was dressed up and the party started early. We got indication that the guys were playing stones cover “exile on main” for the halloween show early and were pumped.

In the festival area - preshow watching the freaks.

On the camp site before the show.

Didn't take long to get used to the surroundings.

Bud lights in hand.

Waiting for some Lot food. Chicken wraps.

The flame throwers were going all night.

Set 3 they bust out Fluffhead and we were groovin.

I vaguely remember stumbling over this pumpkin in the way home.

Set I:
Sample in a Jar, The Divided Sky, Lawn Boy, Kill Devil Falls, Bathtub Gin, Squirming Coil, Runaway Jim, Possum, Run Like an Antelope

*Set II – “Musical Costume” Cover Set: The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street w/ Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings:
Rocks off, Rip This Joint, Shake Your Hips, Casino Boogie, Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, Torn and Frayed, Sweet Black Angel, Loving Cup, Happy, Turd on the Run, Ventilator Blues > I Just Want to See His Face > Let It Loose, All Down the Line, Stop Breaking Down, Shine a Light, Soul Survivor

Set III: Backwards Down the Number Line > Fluffhead, Ghost, When the Circus Comes to Town, You Enjoy Myself

Encore: Suzy Greenberg w/ Horns

Four AM wakeup call, plane to Vegas, plane to California, taxi to the desert, RV to the Valley, two Phish sets and 8 beers. Whew – long day.

Cribb and Conner setting up shop at the campgrounds

Our neighborhood for the weekend

Inside the festival area at sunset

Its all about the 8.

The Fire Tornado

Super realistic sights

The end of the night got fuzzy.

Sierra Nevada made this special phish brew for the festival!

Set I: Party Time, Chalkdust Torture, Moma Dance, NICU, Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Stash, I Didn’t Know, Poor Heart, Cavern, Beauty Of A Broken Heart, Ocelot, Time Turns Elastic

Set II: Punch You in the Eye, Down With Disease -> Prince Caspian > Wolfman’s Brother -> Piper -> Joy, David Bowie, Harry Hood, Golgi Apparatus

Encore: Character Zero

If you need me for anything this weekend, I’ll be on the polo grounds in Cochella somewhere in this crowd at the phish festival.

Phish festival crowd

Skyler and Wesley helped me today with the influx of leaves falling by the minute. They took some time to jump in the pile and to pose for the camera.

Wes commanding the leaves to form a pile.

the boys - not fighting

My little boy growing up quickly. Here is Skyler’s second grade photo – wild hair and all.

Skyler Cribb - Second grade - Age 7.5

We had our first game today with the new Dragons soccer team. Our second grade corinth team narrowly lost a hard battle but showed much potiential out of the gate in a new league with 7 x 7 play. Great job team.

Coach Cribb says we need to see some goal scoring today.

Skyler and I hit all the big roller coasters at WOF this weekend as he is finally tall enough to ride the big ones. Here are the pics of us conquering the Mamba. Remember your first big coaster ride?

The Mamba's powerful climb at Worlds of fun.

Skyler shut his eyes most of the time!

Right after the 1st ride on the Mamba.

Well, we finally made out to Worlds of Fun this weekend as we have made it a plan to hit the park each year at the end of the summer to celebrate. This kids had such a great time and Skyler got to hit all the big roller coasters now that he is bigger than 48 inches.

All smiles...

Wes riding the horse

wes and laura on the octopus

Last week we squeezed in one last pool day for the summer. Boy am I gonna miss the great mild summer we had in the midwest this year. Here are a couple of final summer shots at the Leawood pool.

Cribb family at the pool - summer 09

The Tan Man