sound & fury

Like I said before Elinor had so much fun at the fest. It was 3 days long and Dave's band headlined on Sunday. She had seen him play but in a small venue that was extremely hot and we were standing in the back. This time we were on stage right behind him. She kept peeking around his amp to watch him and then stare at uncle Shawn playing drums. She did great for about half the set but it was about 10pm and WAY past bedtime. She started to fuss a little. We went outside played with a puppy and finally she fell asleep in the ergo.

BBB new hats

watching Barney with Kitzel of Reaper Records. She loved hanging out with him!

friends from Japan

nap time

baby whisperer. We can't wait to meet this baby!

first barrette

watching bands on Daddy's shoulders

cuddling with Daniel

wearing his bands onesie

my favorite shirt Dave is selling

playing in a box of shirts

meeting Daddy's old friends

reading the BBB fact sheet

more friends!

working sound

 

and watching Daddy play!

California

We are currently in Ohio visiting my parents, we have been here since Friday. My plan was to post these pictures as soon as we got here but without my computer and visiting I never had time! I just realized I could use Dave's computer to post this.

Last Wednesday we head to California. Elinor was such a great littler traveler, barely making a peep the whole flight. 

HR from Bad Brains was on our flight!

As soon as we got to LA we headed to Veggie Grill. 

Oh I wish we had one near us. Some of the best vegan food I have ever had. We have gone a couple of times with meat eaters that also love it. After stuffing ourselves we checked into the hotel in LA and went shopping. 

While shopping we met up with a friend. We told our friend we were wanting donuts not expecting to actually find some. There happened to be a Babycakes pretty close by. 

After getting some donuts and a cupcake we went to Native Foods for dinner. I was really excited about it but I ended up not liking it. Dave's food was ok and mine was ehh. 

this guy was playing outside of Native Foods. He was amazing!

We swung by another friends house just to pick up some posters Dave had printed for the fest. We ended up sitting outside talking for way longer than we thought. Elinor slept the whole time and missed out meeting some new friends. As soon as we got back to the hotel she woke up super wild and happy. 

The next morning after picking Uncle Shawn up from LAX and eating at Hugo's (such good breakfast!!) we started driving to Santa Barbara. We made a few stops at the Camarillo Outlets, guitar center and Ross. 

Instead of staying at a hotel, we found a vacation rental. It is amazing and cheaper than the hotels in the area! It was back from everything, so quiet and beautiful with multiple gardens and walking trails. They have never allowed children there but made an exception for us! She was really good the whole time there, I hope they thought so too. I would love to stay there again next year. 

in front of the lemon tree at the hermitage

inside the front gate

swinging on a bench in the backyard

Dave and Elinor looking at lizards in the cactus garden

walking on the trail next to the house

the trail lead to the natural history museums backyard

the museum had a butterfly garden

cuddles with Daddy

we kept hearing growling and then found it was coming from this guy

she just stared at him confused

walking back to the museum backyard

more of the backyard on another day (Also a dress I got from Ross)

some of the gardens at the Hermitage

I have a couple more pictures of Elinor at the beach and some fest ones that I will save for tomorrow.

vacation

Hope everyone enjoyed all the videos of Elinor this week. If you follow me on instagram (fourthstpayphone) then you know we have been in California. Dave was playing a music fest/selling his label stuff there. It is my least favorite of the fests that we go to but this year with Elinor there it was so much fun!I will write more about our week later but here is a cute picture of Ellie from our trip

sound and fury

Going to the fest this year I knew it would be a little harder than the past years we have gone. I got super motion sick everytime we got on the plane (we had a layover each flight). Also midday everyday I was getting tired/antsy/hungry. Besides that I did pretty well. When I started feeling like that though Dave would get someone to watch the table and we went on trips to different vegan restaurants in the area, which was fun and yummy! (check out Guru Pizza, vegan cupcakes at Crushcakes and Natural Cafe too!)

We got in to LA Thursday night and went to veggie grill. Dave wanted to try to make it to the outlets in Oxnard before they closed so we got a ton of food and ate on the way. I wish I took pictures of the food because it was so so amazing. Going there is always my favorite part of that trip. We got sweetheart fries, a santa fe crispy chickin', grillin' chickin' and buffalo wings! I wish we got another order of buffalo wings. They were so insanely good. We did make it to the outlets in time for Dave to run in, then headed to the hotel.

The next morning we went to the venue to set up our table before they opened doors. 

We always get a table off to the side where you can see one of the stages. It's nice because half the time you can sit and still see what's going on but of course a bunch of bands I did want to see were on the other stage. 

Doors finally open and Jon with a balloon for some reason.

Sunday morning we found out about a restaurant called Adama. They had one of the best vegan breakfasts I've ever had.  We did our favorite thing at new places and split meals. 

 pumpkin pecan pancakes!

 protein scramble

Then back at the show being full