I Don't Know How Either

   It's been a bit since I've gone out to just knit and sip on a warm beverage.  It was a rainy day, so it seemed like a good day to start again.  I got a lot of that worked on during the drive back from Kentucky.  I've already changed the pattern some so that I like how the stitches lay a bit better.  I'm not sure how I'm going to get it tested since the Ravelry group I usually use seems to not exist anymore.

  While I was knitting, Ryan was having an interview and got a promotion at work.  It's really exciting and we celebrated.  During his interview their nitro pot exploded a little and there was a "fun" coffee fountain.

  To keep the celebration going we went to a concert.  We are going to ignore the fact that we planned on going to the concert before the interview even happened.  I most likely would have never really gotten into iDKHOW on my own, but I do like their music.  I just tend to either listen to the same few CDs or true crime/paranormal podcasts.

  Since we didn't feel the need to get close to the stage, we stopped off at The Silver String for a drink before we went to The Fillmore.  When we first got there, Savannah Conley was still playing.  The opener we had gone to see was Joywave.  I was surprised that I had heard some of their songs before.  iDKHOW was a lot of fun, even though I kept getting distracted during the concert.  I feel bad for that part.  I would go to one of either Joywave's or iDKHOW's concerts again.

At The Late-Night Kentucky Picture Show

Friday:

Power plant tower we saw in Ohio

  We left later than Shane had been hinting at, but there were a few improvements that needed to be done to various costume parts.  We also had to make a few trips for items we needed.  However, it seemed that no one had a costume whip.  We split up the drive and I got to go first.  Ryan got a good chunk of his car sewing done in that time.  Shane got a nap in when Ryan was driving, and I got some blogging done when Shane drove.

  The hotel bed felt really good at 2:22 in the morning, even if we didn't end up sleeping well.

Saturday:

  This stop was the part I was the most excited about for this trip.  Mothman is my favorite stateside cryptic.  The Loch Ness Monster is my favorite overall.  While it was a small museum, I would go back again.  There were also signs that there is going to be a Mothman themed escape room that we are interested in doing once it opens.

  The Coffee Grinder was across the street from the museum.  We considered going to Village Pizza Inn for their Mothman pizza, but we had other lunch plans already.  On the way to the pre-show get together Ryan finished his sewing and I helped glue some of the patches back onto the Frank jacket.

  DeLite's for lunch, it was near the theater and a pretty cute diner.  I'd go back again for a milkshake or something.

  I got volunteered to play Betty for both shows.  Anyone who has seen the show with a shadow-cast knows that she is the most important character in the whole movie.  Shane provided his car blanket to be my wedding dress.

  There were some technical difficulties right before dinner scene on the first showing, which was interesting because it was digital, but it froze for some reason.  Might have been because they were trying to play it on an Xbox.

  The second showing had a different technical difficulty where there was only sound coming out of one speaker.  I also had to get Ryan some Red Bull to help him get through two shows in a row.

  Ryan was invited to come play Frank by someone who had never seen it before, but who was confident in his abilities.  I joked that you know that Ryan was a good Frank because he came with his own entourage.

  We were staying at the French Quarter Inn because it was not far from the theater.  It turns out it didn't cost much more than the Super 8, but was a lot nicer all around.

  Since both shows ended about the time ours usually starts, we invited some people to our room to hang out.  It was a lot of fun though we wish we could have gotten more people to hang out.  It also would have been nice to have been able to sleep in more before check out.

Sunday:

  The quality of sleep was a lot better in this hotel for some of us, but wasn't as long.  Even though I got fewer hours of sleep, I felt more rested.  The shower head also had nice water pressure and gave me a quick shoulder massage.

  On the way to Frisch's Big Boy, we stopped at Kentucky Liquor since we don't have drive-thru alcohol stores at home.  When I was in college I used to go to Bob's Big Boy for lunch when my parents came to get me after the semester was over.

  

  We had a good time strolling through River Crossing Flea Market.  It was a bunch of little booths run by individuals.  Unlike some of the other ones I've been to, they didn't have a stickering system, so you had to pay the person whose booth it was.

   Shane suggested we stop by Menards on our way out of town since we didn't make it to one in Chicago.  We don't have them in our area and Shane worked at one in a past life.  It is supposed to be just a hardware store, but you can also get some groceries here too.

  We saw a sign for the Tamarack Marketplace, but it was too late in the day to stop by.  It sounds like a fun place to try and get to next time.

  It was about time to find a place to stretch out legs, so we went to Lion's Den.  We kept an eye out for anything fun to use during the Rocky show.  We also took a quick look at the abandoned hotel that was next door.

  After a stop at Waffle House we headed home.  It was raining or overly foggy most of the time, but a My Chemical Romance fanfic got us through it.

MCR?!

  We stayed up until 3am picking out things to wear.  Mostly for Ryan because a I'm working on being able to fit back into a lot of my fun stuff.  The first concert I ever went to, I went to by accident.  I wanted to go to the craft show and Everclear was playing at the Fairfax County Government Center on June 6, 2003.  The last one I went to was with Joe to see The Prodgety in DC back on May 10, 2010.

  Ryan and I stopped at Sheetz to get some food and beverages before the road trip.  Bill made the trip shorter by lending us his E-ZPass.   We stopped at Maryland House rest stop to get gas and stretch our legs.  It would have been nice if the bathrooms hadn't been very warm, we were already a bit sweaty from the fact that the AC in Ryan's car doesn't work.  We did see other people who were going to the concert in the parking lot.

  The merch line went quickly, and even though everything had a hefty price tag, I got a tour-only shirt and some pin-back button sets.  After we got into the venue, we got some drinks.  I was still very warm so I started with the mango Claffey's Frozen Cocktail.  I thought it was going to be like a slushy, but it was a freeze pop.  Then I got a Party Poison, lime habanero margarita with red edible glitter, which was the special drink for the event.

The band line-up was:

    Devil Master - they were really good.  I like their capes and hair flips.  There was only one guy in the pit really feeling it at first, but then more people got into it.

    My Chemical Romance - it was a great show.  It's actually interesting how I got to go.  Ryan wasn't sure he was going to even get to go at all.  He bought the tickets to go with someone, but things happened and they were not longer going to go together.  The other person was the one to get the email with the tickets and sent them the day before the concert, so that was a good thing.  However, it meant that since it was such short notice to find someone for the second ticket, people like Mallory and Shane couldn't go.  I'm not a huge fan of MCR, but I do like them.  The craziest thing about this is that I had a dream where Ryan and I went to an MCR concert long before we even started hanging out.

  The whole experience was so much fun.  They played a lot of songs that they didn't get to perform before they stopped being a group for a while.

  I would definitely go to one of their concerts again.  The energy was amazing.  I felt almost dizzy when everyone was yelling about a song they love.  It felt like everyone on stage was having fun with their friends and we got to hang out with them as well.

  We hung out in the parking lot because we weren't in a huge hurry to get home.  We also stopped by 7-11 after getting a bit lost and taking some very dark sketchy looking back roads.  While heading home, I got a bit of history on the various albums and Ryan even played me some of the demo songs that are out there that didn't make it into becoming a full song.

  It was about 3am when we got home and both of us just had to go to bed.