So I just had my Spring Break last week. Its so strange to think that second semester is already halfway over. I mean seriously, it seems like I just got here a couple weeks ago. Anyways, I decided that I would go to Chattanooga with a couple friends and stay at their lakehouse/cabin in kind of the middle of nowhere. Coming into this, I didn't really know what to expect, I just knew I was going to be hanging out with some friends doing who knows what.
When we got up to the cabin, we immediately realized that we had ZERO phone service and ZERO internet. Personally, I was pretty much ok with that. I'm normally pretty solid without internet. Unfortunately for my friend Nigel, he needed internet in order to be able to Skype with his girlfriend and his family in Australia and Malaysia. Needless to say, he got bored pretty quickly. One of the first things we realized was that there were literally tons of wasps everywhere. Our first order of business was to kill them. The thing was that whenever we thought we had gotten all of them, some more would just appear the next morning. I think we got the magic number up to 21 before we finally got rid of the dreaded wasps.
The other thing we realized was that we didn't exactly have a lot to do except watch whatever movies they had up at the cabin. Unfortunately (or fortunately, however you look at it), all of the movies they had were VHS tapes. Man, that brought back some memories. I had forgotten what it meant to have to rewind a movie before watching it. We wound up watching everything from Fight Club to The Jungle Book. We even went and tried some fishing, which eventually ended up with us just standing out at the dock and not even getting a nibble.
Long story short, I had a great time at the cabin. I loved just being able to hang out with some cool people and not have to worry about things like my phone or internet. It was very refreshing.
Next on my spring break agenda was to come back to Murfreesboro a couple days early to meet one of my great highschool friends Christian, who was coming up so we could go see a concert in Nashville together. I hadn't seen him in a couple months, so I was pumped. He also brought one of his friends from college whose name was Wes. These two introduced me to the 50 count nugget at McDonald's for just ten bucks. That's right, 50 nuggets for TEN bucks. Obviously, we split them. Otherwise, one of us probably would have passed out just from the sheer number of nuggets.
Later that night, me and Christian headed to the concert. We were going to see one of our favorite bands, The Bridges. I think I've talked about them before in a post but if you haven't listened to them, you really should. You won't be disappointed. What really surprised me though was how good the other two performances were. The headlining band was Apache Relay (yep, that's a Heavyweights reference for all you movie buffs out there). They had one of the most energetic shows I've seen in quite a while. It consisted of lots of jumping around and dancing, but in a really cool way. The opening singer/songwriter of the night was a guy named Rayland Baxter. I had never heard of him before, but I was really blown away by his great songwriting, unique voice, and catchy songs. Plus, he has one of the most rocking mustaches ever. Check him out for sure. As always, I hope you enjoy! (sorry this post went a little long, I got a little carried away)
-Colby McHugh
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