Parachute

So this last weekend I had the really great opportunity to go to a Christian music festival called Parachute. Now when I say 'music festival' I don't mean just your random little family fair. I mean this thing is HUGE. In fact I think a better word for it would be..... MASSIVE.

It was more than a little ridiculous to be perfectly honest. The numbers that I heard were 25,000 people were there. No I didn't put that comma in the wrong place or add too many zeros. There really were 25,000 people there. This was a massive event. The largest in the southern hemisphere and to be completely honest I think it could give anything up north a very good run for their money. I had a totally awesome time and discovered that Jesse, one of the staff members that I went with, apparently has connections with some mafia type of group. :) To get into the festival you would normally have to pay quite a bit (we got 1/2 price tickets - thank you Hadassah and Jack). Once we got into the festival we discovered that Brian "Head" Welch (yes, that would be the guy that used to be in the band Korn) was going to be doing a Q&A session at one of the buildings. We tried to get in to see Chris Tomlin speaking but found out that we'd have to pay an extra $50 a piece to do so!! Jenn (Jesse's wife) and I were like "oh bummer - oh well, I guess maybe next time". However Jesse and Nat (kiwi guy that was in my semester when I was a student here, and now comes back to help and visit now and again) were not going to be so easily swayed. So, then went, and talked, cajoled, joked, pleaded and who knows what else and we all got to go in for free!! I was super excited. Not to mention we also got to see (the pictures are in this order) Rapture Ruckus, Seabird, Parachute Band, Chris Tomlin, and Louie Giglio. :)