Last week I attended Creation Festival with 100,000 of my closest friends. Well, maybe not my closest friends, but that’s how many people were in attendance during the four-day festival.

I went with five members of my church’s youth group, a friend of one of the members and another leader. We had a group site with a nearby church, which allowed us to be much closer to the main and fringe stages than we would have if we had gone by ourselves. We (the eight of us) left Tuesday afternoon at 2:00, arrived at the festival shortly before 4:00 and had our portion of the site set up not too long afterward.

The festival didn’t officially start until Wednesday evening, so we had almost a full day to hang out and have fun. I played frisbee for a while that first day and throughout the week, including my first ever game of ultimate frisbee with a group camping nearby. It’s an awesome game, but quite difficult when playing on a hill!

It would take quite some time to review the entire festival, so I’ll just touch on some of my favorites.

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday:

Saturday:

And lastly… for those of you who’ve heard about how tarps are put down on the hill each morning, I found a video on YouTube of Saturday morning’s “tarp race.” It just so happens that Saturday wasthe only day where people had to go back and wait 30 minutes.