Titled as followed..

SO.

The main topic which i would like to address in the following post is titled as followed:

KINDOMBOUND.

In order for me to recount the week's happenings in a coheric manner, i shall order them chronologically.

By day.

SUNDAY
Junky and I were supposed to leave around 12:30
I got a text from him saying to wait till 1:30
Followed an hour later with a text saying to wait till 3 or so...

So we left the station around three or so lol

Driving down, I watched some episodes of the simpsons and the tick (nostalgiaaaaa) and then got a quarter of the way through the dark night by the time we hit the border. I turned off the dvd play to look as mature and professional as possible. (note we are driving a wildly decal'd life mobile)

Got through the border with little trouble save the line up.. The border guard pretended to ignore the attrocious state of Junky's washing machine damaged passport and we were on our way.

Then we drove.

We arrived at our destination about an hour and a half later. At this point it was around 8 oclock so we went and had dinner at a small (and freezingggg cold) diner. We observed that nearly every item on the menu contained some form of blue (or as americans (and french) spell it, "bleu") cheese... weird.

We went back to the hotel and went to bed.

MONDAY

We got up early and made our way to darien lake theme park. They gave us special media passes which we were naively mistaken to believe that they would give us special priveledges. From Junky's past experiences, there was a special media tent which artists went to for interviews and pictures... No such thing this year.

So with our useless media passes in hand, we rode every rollercoaster the place had to offer save for three (i use the word useless more in jest than in seriousness as the passes did get us into the park every morning and allowed us to watch the bands... and we didnt have to pay for anything).

The three coasters we had not ridden were the "mind eraser," the "sidewinder(or some such thing)," and the "ride of steel" (previously known as "superman."

We did not ride these due to various social or technical and maitenance issues regarding the coasters.

We made our way to the park stage where we witnessed Since October's performance, and later, Thousand Foot Krutch. We met most of the guys in these bands and TFK actually remembered Junky from a previous encounter.

TUESDAY

We woke early again. We discovered that we shared a hotel with Phil Joel, who performed that afternoon. We rode all the coasters again save for the "ride of steel" (once the fastest coaster in the world).

We also made our way into the waterpark to enjoy the massive water slide complex.

We watched Fireflight (whom we met and talked with briefly) perform that night along with Skillet.

Now about Skillet.

I watched Skillet perform a few years ago at Aquire The Fire. Their performance there was mediocre at best..

I was blown away that night. Not only was it a sold out show of over 5000 people easy, the band's stage performance was nothing short of brilliant.

They added a violin and a cello player to their lineup.

And flamethrowers.

It was good.

WEDNESDAY

The last day of Kindombound 2010 started like both others. Early.

We rode all the coasters again, as well as some of the parks other rides.

We witnessed the awe inspiring performance of Disciple, while we enjoyed playing frisbee with some new friends.

That night we watched TobyMac close the week off with another great show.





All that to say in closing:
I have new found respect for Skillet,

and rollercoasters do nothing for me.

I think I'll look to freefall base jumping for adrenaline now...




Jake Wilson