Summer Camp 2013 as summerize by Robby Rush
Hellooooooo MuthahUmphahs!! I'm sorry this took so long! Work and life have been absolutely crazy these past few weeks! But, as promised, here is a link to the best of the best pics of Summer Camp (I'm missing emails for Galen and our nitrous peeps...please forward this to them!)... http://robbyrushpics.shutterfly.com/pictures/115 A few notes: I took about 1300 pictures over the course of the four days we were there. The most being on the Friday, 05/24, and the morning/afternoon of 05/25 for the church performance and the VIP lunch. After that, I was able to snap a few during the rainy Saturday night performance (they certainly look like aciiiiidddd pics to me!), but I sent Galen back with my phone between Umph sets when he went on the walk of his life. Mad Galen's mission: To find the molly in the tent! Of course he found it! Mad Galen!!! Anyways, I didn't want to risk losing all of our VIP lunch pics and we're all lucky my phone was not ruined in the rain. I took a few more pics on Sunday too. But besides the first four pics in the album where I was playing around with my "SplitPic" app in the church, everything should be in chronological order. As we all know, Umph is a super photogenic band. It took about 4 hours today to sort through all of the pics and put them all on Shutterfly. If you want every single one, you just have to grab it from my hard drive. Otherwise, I did my best to capture a good mix of lights, band members, "Party Time Crew" pics, etc...and I chose the better quality pics, if possible. I narrowed down about 1300 pics to 410. However, I did watch the slideshow after everything was uploaded and it does look like some of the pics that I selected were not added to the album. Bummer...but sorry, I'm not going back through them all to find out what I missed. I did catch a few and threw them back in...including the album cover of the Party Time balloon. I'm not sure what I would have done if I forgot that pic haha. Some special shout-outs:
Sarah Umph - Your tattoos were one of the highlights of the album! I promised you that I'd get you the pics! (pics 136 and 225 in the album).
For those of you who don't know Sarah: The first pic was taken outside the VIP bathrooms when I creepily asked her "Hey, can I take a picture of your legs?" Thank God she knew I was talking about her ink! However, a pair of sexy legs never hurts :) The second pic was taken in the VIP area at the Umph stage. Also, thanks to Sarah for being extremely cool and actually seeking me out the next day to make sure I was actually going to send her the pics!
Bob Umph - My wing man throughout all of the Umph shows (pic 157 in the album). Whenever my molly was winding down and I needed a pick-me-up, I just looked to my left and there was Bob...playing the air guitar. No one plays it quite like Bob-o! Bob, thanks for the good times and constant smiles!
Christian Umph - One of the two college dudes behind us during the Saturday rainstorm (and then again on Sunday). You two were a pleasure to rage and dance with! Enjoy your life while you're young, go to as many festivals as possible, and talk to as many strangers as you can (unless they promise you candy and invite you into their van)! Unfortunately, I don't have any pics of you two in here...but our group will definitely remember you guys!!
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Overall, I had an absolutely unforgettable time on this trip! From the 30 hours round-trip from NJ, to setting up camp with Galen in record time, to the amazement at seeing the recliners in the VIP tent for the first time, to the fire hula-hooping girls, to Zack chugging Jameson and dancing uncontrollably, to the beautiful weather on Friday, to the rainy weather on Saturday, to the mud, to the mud, to the mud, to the soaking tents and sleeping bags, to the delicious hookah, to the breakfast sandwiches and ice coffee from the Cracked truck at 6 in the morning, to grill master Patrick for that good eatin' that we all desperately needed, to the no-shower policy around my camp no matter how bad we smelled, to the Under Armor that was almost glued to my body after wearing it for 60 straight hours, to super scary seizure moments with friends, to the baaaaad acid trips for new friends (he'll never be the same), to the nitrous balloons in the woods, to the journey through the magical light forest with the love gun and the Party Time balloon, to acid-dancing in the rain, to the molly, to the molly, to the molly (thanks K!).....oh yeah, and besides all of that....there was Umph :)
To K, Galen, Pat, Zack, and Cristina -- I couldn't have asked for a better Summer Camp crew. I will remember that weekend for the rest of my life, but mostly because I shared it with such fucking amazing, sick-nasty, crazy, good people! I will always have a Party Time balloon for you to follow!
Love love love love love!
Rage. Repeat.
Rob
