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Friday, June 4th - Monday, June 7th
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Donnington Special!
What a fucking weekend.
I'm having problems describing the overall feeling I had about the weekend.
Why? Read and you'll find out.
Friday, June 4th
After a quick bath and last minute check of all my luggage (clothing and food that wouldn't fit, ticket, tickets, wallet), I got into town, and got to the train station. It got there about 15 minutes early which was nice timing I guess. I just stood on the platform, grinning to myself, thinking of all the fun I was going to have in the next few days.
Hmmm
I even asked my mental magic 8-ball how good it would be. It replied "interesting".
I knew then something would go wrong - although I never would have imagined it would have been that.
So I got the train to Manchester (ticket, tickets, wallet), and changed at Salford Cresent. I read the Sun almost from cover to cover I was that bored. I just wanted to get there and be with my mates and Rachel. The ride there dragged, and I eventually got to Sheffield (I was going a funny route), but at least I did I wasn't the only one. The train was delayed a little bit, so I texted Dan a few times to let him know I'd be late. He didn't reply the bastard :p
I eventually got in Derby (I had to stand all the way there O_o), and as I got into the station (ticket, tickets, wallet), I saw Shru out the corner of my eye. I didn't say hello but yeah - I won't go there. I couldn't see Dan or his mate, so I gave him a call. It turns out he was in the cafe I kept looking at. They had their backs to me.
D'oh.
Anyway, we said hello to one another, his mate turned out to be called Ryan, and we headed for the shuttle service. We got on the bus and within 5 minutes, we were on our way to Download. We joked around, talkin about random junk (including taking the piss of The Rasmus who are now known as Das Rashmoose). It took like 45 minutes to get there, although it seemed like an eternity with Rachel texting me seeing how far away I was. I just wanted to see her (she'd been saying for a week or so how she'd attack me lol).
But before I could do that, I had to get into the damn place.
Ow
We got off the shuttle service, and joined the queue to get in. The queue
that took us 2 fucking hours (ticket, tickets, wallet), stood up the entire
time, with me carrying a three-man tent and a 80-litre rugsack full of
drink, food and clothes. My legs and shoulders were so sore after that.
The reason the queuing took so long is because everyone's luggage is checked
before being allowed entry. For a while, someone attempted to drive a
truck through a crowd of thousands. Not such a good idea, eh? I had the
pleasure of meeting Charity too. In case you're wondering who Charity
is, here's a photo:
Charity
It was stolen from Dans workplace, and no, they didn't steal the money. They put it in another box. Lol, it was a curly moustache and sideburns.
Once I got to the place they checked my baggage, I was told to turn around and a Scouser (in Derby?) felt my bag a bit and then said "alwrite, you can goe."
I waited that long for some guy to feel up my vodka?
Bastards.
Then the next part was actually finding Simon, Kim and Rachel who'd arrived earlier. They were in the green camping section.
Happy Camper
I looked at the colour of other peoples access bands - some were pink,
some where green. I had a momentary thought that I'd have to camp in another
site because of the whole colour-coding thing.
Turns out I was wrong thankfully. After a few calls and texts to random LPUer n00bs, I eventually found Rachel and Kim waiting for us. She looked real happy - I probably did too. Think that cat of Alice in Wonderland fame.
I got a hug from her.
Not quite the attacking she'd promised, but hell, I wasn't bothered, I just got a hug from her! And there was plenty of time for me to have fun ;).
Turns out she bought a camping ticket so she can hang out with us since we were a day early. Yay - more time with her.
So yeah, we put up my tent very quickly surprisingly. They couldn't have been strangers to tents, and then everyone just caught up. Me and Rach weren't all over one another, we just held hands, and I just watched her. I could have done that all day. She has one of those smiles that are just hypnotic - as some of you will know.
We just joked and wandered a bit. Apparently LP did modified versions (new riffs) of their old material. I only found out cos Jon told Simon.
Simon and Kim outside the tents
VEROOM
..went the airplane as it passed overhead. A few fields away, is East
Midlands Airport so the planes we real low alot of the time - to the point
it would interfere with sleeping or conversations.
Low planes
D'oh.
Tentage
Dan and Ryan went off somewhere leaving me and Rachel; Kim and Simon.
We started getting a little more comfortable with one another, so we began
kissing bit more. Jokingly, Simon told us to get a room, and after a bit
- that's what we did. We went into my tent.
I'm not going to go into explicit details about what we did and didn't do, if only out of respect for Rachel. However, it was apparently 'fucking amazing', so I must have done something right. It took me a while though, at first I felt awkward.
Yes, that's right, me a teenager at my peak, feeling awkward about having fun with a very attractive girl.
*blink*
She reassured me, and that's just what I needed. The others came back and started to take the piss, but I couldn't care. We both emerged, and they soon commented about how we both had huge grins on our face.
I wonder why.
Goodbye?
She said there may be more later on, but she couldn't promise because
she was staying at the hotel with Bec (see Leeds special) and some other
friends. I begged her to stay, and although she wanted to, she decided
not to. We cuddled and hugged a little, but it soon got to the time she
had to leave. I walked her to the exit, but we stopped dead in our tracks
when we saw the thousands of people trying to get into the site.
I told her it was a sign, she gave in and agreed. She was gunna stay in my tent! Awesome!
We went back to the camp and talked more. We cracked open the Vanilla Coke (drink of the Gods) and vodka. The majority of people had a drink, including Chris, some LPU n00b who had got my mobile number from the boards. He camped next to us, although none of us had really talked to him before. He was a little...hmm..he wasn't bad, but a little strange. His accent was a little irratating lol.
He kept saying "Can I ask you a question?". Constantly.
Yikes.
What?! At THIS Time?
It struck 10pm. Kim and Simon said they were going to bed. At first I
thought they were joking, but then I realised they weren't.
Okay fair enough, it was their 11-month anniversary after all.
"Just the lads and my girl, then" I thought.
Nope.
Dan and Ryan said they were going to turn in too, to my disbelief.
So much for being students!
Oh well, Rach and Chris.
We talked for a while about this and that (which means I can't remember :p), and about 11pm, me and Rach went to sleep. I thought I'd have some more fun with my girl, only real quietly. Yet again, I thought wrong!
She started to feel sick and her temperature kept changing. I began to get concerned, so I let her have the sleeping bag (it was fucking freezing, I was shivering >.<) and the majority of room. I spent most of the night shifting around, trying to make her warm and comfortable. I couldn't sleep anyway - I had no pillow. Sometimes we hugged, which was so great, but rather than being on top of the world, I was worried. In the early hours, she rushed out to be sick, although she never was physically sick.
I did manage to get a few hours sleep, but not alot. I was a little disappointed about not getting any more love, but all things considered, I can't complain. She was ill, and that's most important.
I still don't know what was wrong.
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