Aloha friends!
+ Last weekend, me, my friend, and my two kids flew to California to go to the first Daisy Chain Fields Festival in Irvine. It’s a festival created by Olivia Rodrigo where proceeds go to fund 10 charities. It raised $10 million initially but when she came out to perform she brought out Melinda Gates who added another $10 million which is fantastic.
We flew in on a Friday, the festival was Saturday and we flew out early Sunday. It was a rough trip – because the night we flew in we ate at In N Out. My friend and I ate the same thing, burger with no onions. My son had his plain, no veggies or sauce. I had diarrhea at 2am! Ugh…my friend had it at 4am…so we were scared we were going to be dying at the festival in a heatwave. But thank goodness for electrolytes – we survived, but never again In N Out! But the hotel we stayed at was nice, I was happy about that plus they had complimentary breakfast.
There was a heatwave in Irvine of course. 🥵 I think by the time we got to the festival around noon it was 92 degrees – they said it was humid…but I’m from Hawaii and I went to the Philippines. It didn’t feel humid, but it did feel like we were baking in an oven. So my strategy that day was use our fans, hydrate, have some electrolytes and stay in the shade. We stayed under the shade so long though that I know my daughter was bored (Olivia didn’t come out until 8:40pm). I did stand in line for lunch, food lines were long…and HOT, no shade. So yes I saw one girl faint/fall – right when she got her pizza and drink too, poor thing! I wore a hat, I brought snacks, so I think that’s how we survived the day. I also saw a girl barfing, probably from heat exhaustion.
My daughter did start to get a heat rash when she laid down on the grass to rest before Doechii came out. My friend and son did get up closer to the stage for her set but my daughter and I stayed in the back where the shade was…I did bring a cooling towel so I got some ice cold water, wet the towel and pressed it against her arms and her rash went away. But that’s how HOT it was out there…I don’t even know how attendees were going from one stage to the other and standing in that sun for that long.
There was so much to do but because of the heat…we didn’t do them all. I would love to go back again one day and do all the activities! And I’d probably get VIP tickets just to get closer to the stage.
My friend and son went to see Mitski, I could hear her from the shade so I was okay with that. Doechii was hype though and I asked my daughter if we could catch her and she agreed. We stood in the back where there was a screen. I’m bummed I didn’t get long videos of Chappell Roan who was phenomenal. I was busy trying to get ahold of my friend or my son so we could watch Chappell together – there was barely any cell service at least by the Dandelion stage (the main stage) all day! Talk about being off grid 😂. But yeah it sucked not being able to get in touch. My daughter and I did get to sing and dance to Chappell though! Then the finale, where Olivia came out – I’m short, at 5 feet, so I could barely see the screen from where we were. My son could see, he’s 5’7″ – so he was taking a lot of the videos but my poor daughter could not see anything. ☹️. We still sang our hearts out but…now I really want to take her to Olivia’s tour.
Overall, it was quite a weekend! I hope we get to go again next year, maybe just me and my friend if there aren’t any acts my kids want to see.
+ The rest of the week it was all about recovering from the trip, kids went back to school, but also kids caught a cold midway through the week. My son is worse off than my daughter, he has a fever. This weekend, we are keeping an eye on a Category 5 hurricane passing under us and turning towards us today BUT not making landfall (we hope). So kids are just going to rest and get better!
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Books I Finished
- Our Strange Duet by. Erin A. Craig
- The Tarot Trials by. Katee Robert
- The Heart Trials by. J. Elle
- White Raven by. Stacey Marie Brown
- Stalkers Anonymous by. Dana Leeann
Currently Reading:
- The Age of Blood and Magic by. Hannah Mathewson
- A Crown of Blood and Magick by. Amy De La Force
- The Henchperson’s Guide to Unionizing by. Marshall J. Moore
- The Museum of Modern Love by. Mariko Turk
Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:
How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!
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