I just realized yesterday when I was creating my “wanderlust” category after blogging about our Kona trip (Kona-teering) that I never did get around to blogging about Stagecoach, the 3 day country festival we went to this past April.

Now this is a major problem for two reasons (1) half of the reason for this blog is to document our life, travel, trips and adventures for Colt & I to reference them again in the future when we are crossing things off our bucket list or just reading stories to our children on how rad our life was, and (2) it was hands down the best concert I have ever been to in my life. So here I am (back)-blogging, but hey better late than never.

For those of you that don’t know what Stagecoach is it’s basically California’s country music festival that takes place over a three day period at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. It is a million degrees and each day has a killer line up of country artists, vendors and fun. This was this years line up:

But before I go on about the actual weekend let me back track a bit. Colt LOVES country music and I mean (LOVES) it. He is a cowboy hat, boots wearing, chewing tobacco country music lover. As for me, well not so much (until now that is) but I am always down for a good time so when Ashley told us that we had to come with her this year we happily agreed. We had to buy our tickets way in advance (like last fall for this April) since the festival sells out within hours so by the time it actually came around we were more than ready, plus the line up was pretty stellar (even for me, I love Dierks Bentley & Lady Antebellum)

We arrived in LA on Thursday and drove from Newport to Indio early Friday morning to set up shop at our awesome two bedroom condo at the World Mark.

I am so ready to rock this 3 day country fest… cowboy boots, check, cowboy hat, check, watermelon, check..let’s do this!

The Stew Crew is ready to party

Pre-gaming before we head out for round 1

The walk from where the cab has to drop you off to the actual concert grounds is like a million miles in a million degree weather (not joking) we were seriously so over it by time number 1 and then had to do it 7 more times over the next 2 days, lol

Colt clearly thought it was hilarious

and so did Ashley

Ashley forgot our wrist bands (aka our concert tickets) in Newport so the boys were in the car ready to go back and drive 3 hours when we called will call and found out we could cancel the old bands and get new ones, whew..Ash you got so lucky!

The grounds were beautiful, well organized, clean and safe and once the sun went down it was the most perfect concert atmosphere

I loved everything about being there the music, the atmosphere, the people it was so country

Since it was so hot the next day we decided to just chill at the pool until the grounds cooled down, we all had certain artists we wanted to see and luckily most of them were later in the afternoon

After a great day at the pool we got country ready, yeeehotttt

here comes the hike, round 2

looks like I wasn’t the only one hating the walk this time, Colt got a huge blister from his new cowboy boots and had to go to medical

but no worries they got my cowboy back on his feet in no time..

The shitshow sisters back in action

(my favorite)

and as the sun went down things heated up

(fat girl status, I love pizza)

check out the girl behind me, I mean it really was that hot but still…lol

Day 3 started back at the pool with the Stew Crew

(Even, Steven, Cleveland just getting it)

sister, sister

and then it was back to the grounds for the grand finale

This was the day I was most excited about so many good artists and the head liner was Zac Brown Band, so fun!

one of my all time favorite moments of me just getting it on my husbands shoulders free-birding

Love this cowboy so so much

the stage(rage)coach crew, we did it!

We are all still standing after 3 long days!

(well barely…)

To say it was an amazing 3 day weekend would be a major understatement. From the festival, to the hotel, to the group of people it seriously couldn’t have gotten any better.

I can’t wait for tickets to go on sale in the next month or two so we can start planning Stage(rage)coach 2014 cause we are just as free, free as we’ll ever be, ever be…