My son got home about 10:20 last night, right on schedule. We talked til about 11, and then I had to get to bed. He was looking forward to the peace and quiet of his own space too. One of the kids he went with wanted to stay over, because he still had a drive home from here. Son said, “Nothing personal, but I need to be alone, and unwind. I have work tomorrow….”
I’m so glad he’s able to know what he needs, and speak it. He said, “I’ve been with 100,000 people for a week. I just want to be alone tonight.” Wanted to absorb all the experiences. We looked at all his chaotic videos of the festival. 7 stages, light shows at all of them, fireworks going off all the time. Wht a show, really. There were about 150,000 people a day.
He said, “No one died, no one OD’d on drugs. One person was lost, and one person was robbed in the parking lot, but that’s it.” He said, about no one dying, that it’s happened that people die from the heat in the summer, because they don’t hydrate. He said it was 110° the last day. When he got home last night, it was 106° there. He has a camelback pack for water. It holds like a gallon or something, it’s pretty big. He said they filled it about every 2 hours.
He said one night, on one of the stages, John Legend just showed up, unnanounced and performed. Wow. This is a festival of all electronic music, and the DJ’s are the stars, mixing the music live on stage. So to have a guy like Legend show up and play, very unusual, but very very cool.
He said it was the best week of his life. I’m very happy for him. He spent way too much money, but I think it was worth it for him, I think he needed that life experience. He actually got to meet some of his favorite DJ’s. One of them flew to Atlanta on the same plane and they talked all the way there, played video games together on the screens that are on the seatbacks.
So that’s the story. I am glad to have him home. It was a crazy week here, and I’m kinda glad he wasn’t around for it. Even though, I did give him a brief synopsis. He was glad I was strong.
Life’s back to normal today. Love and light, everyone.
Image from Google Images, aerial photo of the actual festival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
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Glad he is back safe and sound and that Sin City didn’t eat him up alive! 🙂 I find it so amazing that you guys are so close that you can, too, share your last week’s story with him. I mean, kids his age these days don’t tend to show interest in parents’ life, do they? He must be an awesome kid. He’ll do just fine in CO. 🙂
I just like to give him an overview. We are really close, having experienced so much abuse from his father. I mostly like him to know so he can be sure I’ve been strong. He’s seen me fold to S way too many times. I wanted to reassure him that I wouldn’t again. He’s way more mature than his 24 years would belie.
That is wonderful. You must be so proud of him.
I am. He’s a great kid. 😄 the light of my life.