Cornerstone - before, during and after

-tuesday - visited friends @ my old work @ Giant grocery store in Centerville
-wednesday - went over to Geoff's apartment to look at his computer. the sound didnt work on it so i fixed that. watched some tv then came home.
-thursday - mowed the yard after 111 days of rain, Demon Hunter @ Philly @ 7pm with Jon H and bro. saw my cousin for the first time in a long time just by accident at the restaurant we got food at before the concert. crazy.
-friday - went to the farm where the wedding is going to be... and helped setup chairs for the wedding. Chuck E. Cheese @ 6pm with Todd Duke, Elise , Marie and Lindsey.
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saturday 7/1/06 - Ray and Becca's wedding and reception all outside. i got sun burn. went home for a few hours. packed. then went over to Dan and Carla's to hangout. Aaron, Janice and Liz were there and we played a game.. then watched a movie.
sunday 7/2/06 - church with UCF at Christ the King Community Church. lunch. went to Longs Park (to see concert and fireworks) .. everyone that was there at one time or another visiting that i knew of included the Chad and Laura Hershey family, Lindsey Williams, Elise, Marie Lorah, Jon Francis, Geoff Lang, Michelle, Todd Duke, Aisha, Mel, Emilie Tyson and Cassie. lots of fun
monday - left home in PA around 9am to start the trip out to IL for Cornerstone. arrived at our friends Chris' house in IL around 9pm IL time (before dark). Chris and his gf, Katie was there as well as Kyle and his gf. after a little while we decided to leave a go over to Lees.. to shoot off fireworks.. so we did that. i video taped some of it. then after a lot of fun and all over there we decided to leave i think around midnight or 1am. then we came back to Chris' and waited to Kyle to get back with the movie: Crash. then when he showed back up we watched the movie. good movie. then after talkin a bit we settled down and went to bed around 3:30am.
-this was our 3rd year at Cornerstone. last year and this year were both really nice weather (temperatures) around the 80s.-
tuesday - got up around 11am. ate breakfast. left for Cornerstone around 4pm from Chris' house. arrived at Cornerstone around 8pm. today was Tooth and Nail Day so we had to pay an extra $10 to get in. we barely made it in time to see Project 86 which started at 8:30pm. we basically seemed like we saw the end of this Project 86 show @ Encore 1. then we saw mewithoutYou @ Encore 1 @ 10:30pm. then around midnight or after we left Cornerstone to go to Walmart and get food for 2 days or so.
wednesday-saw Red @ Underground stage @ 3:30, saw the end of As Cities Burn @ main @ around 6pm, then The Chariot @ main @ 6:30, Fireflight @ Rock For Life @ 8pm, Far and Fading (from Lancaster, PA) @ Rock For Life @ 9pm, Underoath @ main @ 10:15pm, Demon Hunter @ Encore 1 @ midnight (awesome show).
thursday-Chris' mom showed up at C-Stone for today only. i saw Never Forget (up and coming band probably) @ a generator stage @ 11am, left and went to Walmart and then got lunch at Quiznos, Honour Recital @ Encore 1 @ 1pm, Dive Bomber (singer from Ghoti Hook) @ Encore 1 @ 4pm, Kids in the Way @ Rock For Life @ 5pm, mewithoutYou @ main @ 6:30, Copeland @ main @ 7:40, Anberlin @ main @ 8:55, David Crowder Band @ main @ 10:15 (left early to get other shows), put on warmer clothes cuz it was gettin cold, Bloody Sunday @ Rock For Life @ 11pm, then saw the fireworks from our campsite. cornerstone rocks.
friday-xLooking Forwardx @ Underground @ 9pm (they were good), was gonna see Becoming the Archetype but they didnt play at the scheduled time, was gonna see Olivia the Band @ Improptu @ 10:45 but they didnt play at the scheduled time either, saw No Innocent Victim @ Underground @ 11pm, Haste The Day @ Encore 2 @ midnight.
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saturday 7/8/06-saw Jeff Tragedy and Katie in exhibition tent 2, little bit of band: nor @ Encore 2 @ 4pm (seemed like it was techno or somethin), was gonna see Number One Gun @ Indoor stage (Encore 1) @ 4:10 but they didnt show up, saw Spoken @ Indoor stage @ 5pm, Flyleaf @ main @ 5:30, Day of Fire @ main @ 6:30, went back to campsite to get some things, Project 86 @ main @ 7:40, Pillar @ main @ 8:55, POD @ main @ 10:15 .. POD played 3 songs for their encore.. crazy.. amazing!! packed up campsite and left C-Stone. got back to Chris' around 3 or 4am. showers. not in bed till 6am. sun was coming up.
-kyle bought 2 skirts for himself and somebody missed it (her name starts with an E), went with Kyle and Matt to the Asylum early in the morning on friday and saturday mornings. my bro and I got the nicknames ninjas/party animals from everyone at our campsite. we decided to start a band called Quizno's Revolution that will sing hardcore accapella and have 6 vocals (Chris, KD, Matt, Kyle, Andrew and I). you'll see us live and for the first time at Cornerstone next year.-
sunday 7/9/06-drove home to Chris' from Cornerstone early morning. slept till about noon. got up. hungout. Robyn came over for a bit. then we all went and ate out at Lung Fung chinese. i had a very hot/spicy meal that i didnt finish because i got full and because it was so hot. then we just went back to Chris' and played a board game. Robyn came over and joined us for that. then we watched a movie.
monday-got up around 7 or 8am to tell KD and Chris bye. then went back to bed. then got up around 11:30am to take showers and leave/get on the road. we left around 12:30 from IL and arrived around 10pm in Akron, OH to basically pick up some pancake mix for my mom from our relatives out there. So of course we got to visit with them some. (my bro and I).
tuesay-got up arond 11am .. ate lunch.. then left around noon from OH and arrived around 5:30pm home here in PA. ate supper.
wednesday-got up around 9am. went to Pauls to get Paul and Zim, then Andrew, Paul, Zim and I went and met Will at Beanies for lunch at around noon. we were supposed to meet at 11:30am but Zim was running late and I missed the correct exit. we all got wings... Will got wings and a burger. then we all came back to Pauls to game on our computers. we networked our computers and played games with/against each other. basically the 2 games we played were Counter-Strike Source and Unreal Tournament 2004. then Andrew and I left Pauls around 11pm and came home.
thursday-slept in late basically till 2:30pm because of my cold. was going to go to care group with Tim Smither but cancelled because i had alot of jobs to do around the house and help dad with. so we worked on fixing moms car.
friday-swept out tent to pack away, washed out cooler, mowed the yard. then mom and dad went out to eat with relatives. i washed my car and wow. it looked/looks amazing... i couldnt believe how good it looked but yea.
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saturday 7/15/06 -helped dad fix a light switch and the dryer. then we went to the Washington Boro tomatoe festival to get some food and brought it back home to eat. then spent some much needed time with God. then hungout with Lindsey @ Diehm from about midnight till about 2am.
sunday 7/16/06 -church @ UCF, came home. went and hungout with Tim S. around 4pm. we went to Park City, Circuit City, Walmart and Redners .... we saw Michelle from UCF at Redners. then around 10pm I stopped hangin out with Tim and went and hungout with Jason G. at his place. we watched some tv and funny video clips.. then shot some pool and such. was fun. more people showed up. cuz it was his birthday and all. then i left around 2:30am.
monday-Paul came over around 8pm so that dad could look at the ac in his car but dad told him to come back tomorrow around 7pm so he would have more time and all.
tuesday-paul was gonna come over today to have dad fix his ac in his car but dad had already promised to work on Andrew's car and plus Andrew is leaving the next day to start a traveling job for the week so dad wont be able to work on it any other day. big storm today.. knocked out our electricity for 2 hours. then a bit later i went over to Pauls and uploaded the rest of the pics for Cornerstone.
-Cornerstone 2006 pics can be found at http://photobucket.com/albums/a328/howie399b/
wednesday-paul was gonna come over today to have dad fix his ac but dad was to tired today. stopped over at Pauls to try and find my camera. then went and hungout with Jeff M and Matt W in lancaster city... 717 yo yo.. chillin... so we walked around did a bit of dumpster diving but didnt get much this time. then went back to the house and talked, watched tv, did some things online.. such as myspace and photobucket. then i came home around midnight.