Jisan music festival!

The last weekend in July was the start of our one week summer break.  A long time ago we decided to go to this Jisan music festival for the first weekend and then spend the rest of break in Taiwan.  Jisan is a ski resort about an hour east of where I live now.  We took a taxi straight from work on that Friday so we could make it in time for Radiohead.  Since we were camping out the whole weekend, we went straight to set up our tent when we got there and found out that we would be camping right on the ski slope!  It wasn't too bad, just a bit of a surprise and a bit slanted haha.  The music festival had three different stages and we were camped right in the middle.  We rushed over to see Radiohead, and I realized I didn't know much of his music.  He put on a good concert though.

We went and saw some other performances after, and when we went back to the tent all the bright ski slope lights were still on and the music was booming.  We were all like, how in the world are we going to sleep with this?  But, somehow I passed out right away anyways...and in the morning here's the view from the tent:

And yes we were sleeping on the long grass/plants/flowers.  It was decently comfortable.  Temperature -wise, the morning was unbearably hot.  I got up and drenched myself with sink water both mornings just so I could go back to sleep.

On Saturday we went to watch some Korean bands during the day.  It was super hot, and sadly they had filled in the two pools that used to be there last year.  We left the band area for a bit and found a river to cool off in which was heavenly.  

Concerts during the day.  I want his outfit.

The way Koreans do camping: no personal space.  At least they got to have flat ground in this area!

Here's the little swimming hole we found along the river.  Glorious!

To beat the heat, there was a tent giving out these white "cooling patches" you stick on.  They actually worked fairly well and made you feel cooler because they were really tingly.  Everyone was walking around with these patches on their legs.  Oh Korea, what else will you think of?

Cooling patches on a random person

Later that night, we first went to the Motion City Soundtrack concert and then Owl City.  I got up to the second row for both concerts!  It was crazy how easy it was to get up to the front.  I'm used to everyone pushing and shoving so much that I can't move, but here, everyone was giving each other space and not trying to get as close as possible.  I took advantage of that, of course!  Motion City was awesome of course, and I really enjoyed the Owl City performance.  It's much more fun to see bands when you know the songs!

Excited for Motion City!!

Motion City!

Owl City!!

The next day(Sunday) we were pretty exhausted and the only band I really wanted to see was Los Lonely Boys, but they weren't playing until about 9:30pm and we were leaving for Taiwan on Monday. So we decided to hang out for a bit and then head back to Suji.

Oh and we started our own band while we were hanging out.  No big deal or anything.

I would say it was a very successful first music festival experience.  Now I want to go to more music festivals!!