Bravestock '05 and Country Weddins

When you combine the end of the school year with about 500 high school students, an outdoor stomp, and a couple of the best DJs in the Intermountain West, you pretty much get one of the highest-energy dances of the year-- and some ringing ears for the residents in the surrounding area. It was a beautiful sight. And sound.

Granted, it started out a little slow- it was still light when the dance started at 8. But once the sun went down, you couldn't keep a lid on the dance floor, (asphalt, parking lot...whatever you wanna call it) the rest of the night. I actually saw one guy trying to keep a lid on it, and it just didn't happen. I think he may have even suffered some minor injuries as a result. He got a goiter. And a newt. Very embarassing for all involved.

Nate posted the playlist down low, and I've finally gotten around to a few pictures and a blog entry. We really appreciate all of the support from the students all year and especially at their last stomp of the year. It was great to hear your compliments--and we hope the summer treats you as well as a fisherman treats his bait...or maybe as well as he'd treat his fishing rod or net or something. And as always, a big thank you to Amy Jones who's always supported us, and who's been an incredible asset to not only the student government, but also to the student body at BHS.

To round it all out we had two great weddings this week. A generous tip on the first, and a lucky garter at the second. Only time will tell which of those benifits is worth more.

Congratulations to Mark and Jaymie, and to McKenzie and Joe. We're real proud of you guys for loving someone and sticking to them...even if they are country music fans : ) Seriously though, we played over eight hours of pure country tunes for those weddings, just going to show you that we can make any event a PowerPlay event- that's right- even with country music involved. Some of you might know country tunes haven't always been our forte (pardon my French), but it was obvious from the folks at both of those weddings, the background and dancing at the receptions could not have gone better if Dolly had made an appearance herself. Those cowboys sure love to dance.

And no, we didn't play any Dolly Parton...but we did have a moment of silence just to show our respect for her and her courage (or misjudgement) to actually star in the movie "Straight Talk" back in '92. What a woman.