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This is the view from our hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning, on Saturday the 16th. We'd just arrived the night before, and spent most of Saturday chilling at or near the hotel.

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This is the view from the place where we had breakfast every day!

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Here's an egret. They were all about trying to steal our breakfast. Until we learned what they were, we called them jerkbirds.

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On the beach, looking back at the hotel (the Grand Hyatt in Poipu)

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On the beach! The beach that our hotel is on is called Shipwreck Beach, and is not swimmable--the waves are too rough and there are too many rocks.

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Rocks!

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Some of the pools at our hotel

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The lazy river at the hotel

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Hotel lobby

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Black swans in the koi pond

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Koi

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Steve and a crazy chili cheeseburger from Bubba Burger

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The "Tunnel of Trees," en route from our hotel in Poipu to Lihue

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More hotel pools

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Evening music performance

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When the sun went down, they had a torchlighting ceremony. Here's a guy blowing a conch.

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Torchlighting dancing

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Look! Lit torches!

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Then there were some hula-ing kids.

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We had dinner at Tidepools restaurant, looking out over the water at this dude.

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More breakfast photos

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There were some crazy birds who made occasional appearances in our hotel lobby.

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Here is Poipu Beach, where the water is tame enough for swimming.

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Steve got a two-hour surfing lesson!

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Steve hits the water!

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And then I was temporarily distracted by this chicken who stole the pineapple rind right out of my drink cup! There are chickens *everywhere* on the island.

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More Steve surfing...

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We sojourned to Kalaheo to eat at Brick Oven Pizza. They had this adorable pizza-fied map of the island painted on their wall.

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Dunno if the photo does it justice, but this was seriously some of the best pizza I've ever had!

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On Monday, we took a movie tour, which stopped at a lot of the places on the island that had been used for movies. Our first stop was Ahukini Landing at Hanama'ulu Bay, which was where some scenes from Donovan's Reef were shot (among

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The chickens bathed in the A/C water from our bus!

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More chickens at Lydgate State Park (not a movie site, just a cool place to stop).

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A cool old church made of lava rock

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Two nenes, Hawaiian geese, which are apparently becoming harder and harder to find.

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Kilauea Lighthouse!

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Some artist-types painting the scenery around Hanalei Bay.

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Hanalei Bay!

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Taro fields outside Hanalei.

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Once we got to the bay, I had to dip my toes in.

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The pier at Hanalei Bay, which is in about a million movies. South Pacific is a big one.

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Another cool old church

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Taro fields viewed from above.

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Wailua River State Park

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This rock caught my eye because it looked like the Crazy Horse rock!

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This field and river are featured in the beginning scenes of Raiders of the Lost Arc, which made Steve very happy.

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We had anoli lizards hanging out in the foliage on our hotel room patio, which I never got tired of watching!

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And here he is doing something funky with his neck!

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Here you can kinda see his little friend in the bottom left corner.

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And then he escaped up the wall!

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More chickens, near Spouting Horn Park

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And here we see the horn spouting!

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And here we see the horn spouting!

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And here we see the horn spouting!

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And here we see the horn spouting!

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Time to enjoy a Puka Dog for lunch, per Leah's suggestion!

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We drove up to Waimea canyon and stopped at all the lookouts. Here's lookout #1.

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You can kinda see the very red Kauai dirt being kicked up into the air on this farm.

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Lookout #2

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Steve feeding chickens at lookout #3

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Ni'ihau is a little island near Kauai and when it's clear, you can see it from the top of the canyon. There's too much glare in this photo...

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... but here you can see it!

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Up to the last lookout at the top, at Koke'e State Park.

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Looking down at Na'pali Coast.

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The road back down from the canyon.

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We found on last lookout on the way back down, where we could look back up at the canyon.

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Joey, one of our guides, snatched my camera and took this picture when I wasn't looking!

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Here we are all nerded up in our harnesses.

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Steve making his first zip

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Zip #2

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Looking back up at the next zip spot - we repelled down this bank where a waterfall is supposed to be (but it's been dry this fall).

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Instructor showing us how to zip upside down!

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Looking across the valley at the first long zip.

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Steve coming across

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The final zip!

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Blurry photos I took mid-zip

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Steve upside down!

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Getting down from the line via ladder

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Looking up at the folks who came after us.

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And there were kitties!!

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Cooling off in a private swimming hole at the end of the day.

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Ahhhhh

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On our way out for dinner.

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On Thursday, we returned to Poipu Beach so that Steve could surf again. But while surfing, his foot collided with a sea urchin, and we had to make a quick trip to the ER!

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Yeeouch!

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On Friday morning, we got in this here doors-off helicopter to see the island from the sky!

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And we're off!

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It was pretty freaky to look down and see nothing blocking you from falling to your death. It required a lot of faith in seatbelts!

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Heading up toward Waimea canyon

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Coming around the west side of the island to see the Na'pali coastline

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Neat little open-top cave.

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Heading into the center of the island, toward Wai'ale'ale, the volcano that formed Kauai.

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Lots of waterfalls!

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Heading into the crater of the volcano

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Leaving Wai'ale'ale and heading south, toward Poipu.

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Our pilot was also the guy who puts out fires on the island, and when he saw a brush fire, he swooped in closer to make sure it was under control.

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This volcano is featured in the movie Jurassic Park -- in the movie, a helicopter lands at the base of the waterfall.

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Kauai Coffee plantation.

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Us on the ground!

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Then Steve went ukulele shopping.

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Then we got cheap local food. Steve got pork two ways: kalua and laulau.

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I got ahi sauteed in caper-butter. Duuuuude.

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Now we're in the botanical gardens where the luau was held. Look! Nenes!

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This goose made me laugh.

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Peacocks

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Baby peacock

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Another peacock

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Getting ready to take the pig out of the underground oven.

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Mmmm... pork.

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Then we stuffed ourselves and drank may mai tais.

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Then the show started!

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Complete with volcano that went off from time to time.

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These Maori dancers were spinning these ball-things...

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...then they set them on fire!

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More fire-dancing

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Us and the cast!

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The grand finale.

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Saturday we hung out at the hotel and took advantage of the lap pool and spa and stuff. They had a performance of young Taiko drummers, who were really good.

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Then we ate kalua pig nachos!

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The moon was full, and I tried to get a picture of just how bright it was. It's a blurry photo, but it gets the point accross!

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More photos of the breakfast restaurant (I LOVED this place)

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We hiked to Kipu Falls -- most of the hike was through a grassy trail just like this.

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Lots of rocks to climb around on once we got there!

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I could've climbed down these vines to get to the edge of the water, but I was too chicken.

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GS Promos

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Black Hills!

iPod vending machine
This was in the Minneapolis airport, and I just thought it was too wacky to not take a picture of it!

Custer fireworks 1
Here my mom and I are taking pictures of each other...

Custer fireworks 2
...more of the crew.

Custer fireworks 3
Sitting on the ground is less-than-comfortable, but not too bad.

Custer fireworks 4
Kinda fuzzy, but I like this picture for the smiley Isaak.

Custer fireworks 5
The crowd that gathered

Custer fireworks 6
Steve looking oddly blue in the twilight.

Custer fireworks 7
My shots of the fireworks really didn't turn out, but here's the sunset

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Deadwood - shootout 1
This was one of those totally lame reenactments...

Deadwood - shootout 2
...held , in front of the 4 Aces Saloon, better known as the Hampton Inn.

Deadwood - shootout 3

Deadwood - shootout 4

Deadwood - Saloon #10
Where Wild Bill Hickok was shot!

Deadwood - Saloon #10
See? Here's the chair where it happened.

Deadwood - Gem Theater
Where's Al Swearengen?

Deadwood - tour guide
We took a bus tour up to Mt. Moriah, with this guy yakking all the way.

Deadwood - Mt. Moriah 1
On the way up the hill.

Deadwood - Mt. Moriah 2
More views on the way up.

Deadwood - Mt. Moriah 3
Wild Bill's grave.

Deadwood - Mt. Moriah 4
Calamity Jane's grave.

Deadwood - Mt. Moriah 5
View from the top.

Deadwood - Mt. Moriah 6
Another view from the top, of a hill that had a fire last year.

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Us at the top.

Crazy Horse - Buffalo dancer
Here's a Lakota dancer doing a Buffalo Dance with the monument in the background

Crazy Horse - on the way up 1
We go to go up the mountain, thanks to my mom!!

Crazy Horse - on the way up 2
The view from the bottom

Crazy Horse - on the way up 3
The road to the top.

Crazy Horse - on top 1
Steve asks our friendly guide a question.

Crazy Horse - on top 2
You can see Wyoming and Nebraska from the top!

Crazy Horse - on top 3

Crazy Horse - on top 4

Crazy Horse - on top 5
The whole crew

Crazy Horse - on top 6
This one's for the Christmas Card this year!

Crazy Horse - on top 7
Here they're doing blasting work on the horse's head.

Crazy Horse - on top 8

Crazy Horse - on top 9
Isaak and Mark squinting.

Crazy Horse - on top 10
Isaak looking over the edge.

Crazy Horse - on top 11
Steve in a hardhat.

Crazy Horse - on top 12
More wisdom from our friendly guide.

Crazy Horse - on top 13
The face.

Crazy Horse - on top 14
Up the nose, hee hee!

Custer State Park 1
A lone buffalo.

Custer State Park 2
A running antelope

Custer State Park 3
The herd!

Custer State Park 4
A big, lazy bull.

Custer State Park 5
Momma and calf.

Custer State Park 6
This one was real freaking close to the car.

Custer State Park 7
You lookin' at me?

Custer State Park 8
Longhorn sheep running up the hill.

Needles 1
Steve and I pose along the Needles Highway.

Needles 2
Steve is a rock climber

Needles 3
Steve on a rock.

Needles 4
Steve and Isaak on a rock.

Needles 5
Steve is tiny on the huge rock.

Rushmore 1
5 faces.

Rushmore 2
Washington's face through a rock formation.

Rushmore 3
This is as close as they let you get!

Rushmore 4
The original model has torsos!

Rushmore 5
Lakota hoop dancers do a grass dance in full garb.

Badlands 1
A panoramic view

Badlands 2

Badlands 3
Watch out!

Badlands 4
This aptly-named overlook is called "Yellow Mound"

Badlands 5

Badlands 6
Prairie dog barking at us!

Badlands 7
Prairie dog standing on his hind legs.

Badlands 8
Us on the rocks.
Bonnaroo!

Traffic!
The approach to the festival itself.

Free T-shirts

Cold War Kids
The only picture I took that turned out at all!

Tortoise 1

Tortoise 2

Brazilian Girls 1

Brazilian Girls 2

Gilian Welsch 1

Gilian Welsch 2
with John Paul Jones!

Gilian Welsch 3

Gilian Welsch 4

Gilian Welsch 5
He's back!

Gilian Welsch 6

Gilian Welsch 7

Me in a hat
This is the first non-winter hat I've ever owned!

Nick Kroll
pretends he's gay, which I guess is funny.

David Cross

Cross + the other 2
Doing a spoof on that redneck show on Comedy central.

Ferris Wheel!

That's Tool.
Can't you tell?

Super Jam

Super Jam - encore 1

Super Jam - encore 2

Protestors!

Old Crow Medicine Show 1

Old Crow 2

Old Crow 3

Gogol Bordello 1

Gogol Bordello 2

Gogol Bordello 3

Gogol Bordello 4

Gogol Bordello 5

Gogol Bordello 6

Gogol Bordello 7

Filthy feet

Dov Davidoff

Dave Attell 1

Dave Attell 2

Dave Attell 3

Spoon 1

Spoon 2

Spoon 3

Spoon 4

Franz Ferdinand 1

Franz Ferdinand 2

Franz Ferdinand 3

The Police
See? That is clearly Sting on the monitors!

Flaming Lips 1
Their sound check

Flaming Lips 2
They played "War Pigs" - see Colin Powell in the background?

Flaming Lips 3
Goofy inflatables littered the crowd.

Flaming Lips 5
All that waiting turned us into hippies!

Flaming Lips 6

Flaming Lips 7
First the UFP came down...

Flaming Lips 8
...then the band emerged...

Flaming Lips 9
...then Wayne came out the top in his hamster ball...

Flaming Lips 10
...was lowered to the crowd...

Flaming Lips 11
...then walked around on us for a while!

Flaming Lips 12
A decent picture of the aliens on the side

Flaming Lips 13
I love this one!! When the balloons came out.

Flaming Lips 14
Balloons + confetti

Flaming Lips 15

Flaming Lips 16

Flaming Lips 17

Flaming Lips 18

Flaming Lips 19
It was hard to capture, but here Wayne is doing something with fog and a strobe.

Flaming Lips 20
Green encore

Flaming Lips 21

Flaming Lips 22
Blue encore

Flaming Lips 23
Returning to the UFO

Flaming Lips 24

Flaming Lips 25

Flaming Lips 26
Bye guys!

Yard Dogs
I wish I could've gotten better pictures of these dancers! They were awesome!

Sideshow 1
fire-eating

Sideshow 2
doing something gross...

Sideshow 3
burlesque dancers

Sideshow 4

Decemberists 1
Can you see them? All tiny on the stage, there?

Decemberists 2

Feist 1
Batteries. Dying.

Feist 2

car filth
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Knoxville! Knoxville!
And it's fabulous sunsphere!
GS at RATB

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