Summary of Day 1 of Bottlerock, hopefully more to come about my future days of Bottlerock

I got to go to Bottlerock this year.  It was a four day music festival in the Napa Valley.  I am not a rich guy, and a 4 day ticket was 399 dollars.  The timing of it was lucky... It was May 9-12.  May 9 is my birthday, so I was able to get a ticket as a birthday present. I think the reason my parents gave me a 4 day ticket rather than a 3 day is because the additional day of the 4 day ticket was my birthday.  I was hoping to make friends at the festival.  When I first got there I was waiting in line behind a couple pretty women named Chloe and Sam.  It turned out that Sam was a certified yoga teacher, so I started asking her questions about her yoga practice.  She was volunteering for a band on a minor stage that wasn't on the schedule called Deluna.  The band started throwing out wrist bands. I would run around to try to get one.  They would throw it to my left and I would chase after it and they would all be picked up.  They would throw it to my right and I would chase after it and they would all be picked up. I felt crazy for chasing after a wrist band.  Sam gave me one that she picked up, and it said "Certified Delunatic".  It was ironic.  I was trying to become a certified yoga teacher years ago, and I ended up hearing voices and ended up in the mental hospital.  I didn't get certified.  Then I was trying to respect this yoga teacher Sam, and I got a wrist band out of it... Certified Delunatic (obviously Delunatic includes lunatic).  So it seemed to sum up my attempt at becoming a yoga teacher from the perspective of the world, although from my perspective I had so many life changing or even soul changing experiences and I learned SO MUCH, and I am constantly grateful to my teacher Sondra and I think of her every day.  I wandered a little bit from stage to stage after that and went back to the same stage where the bands played who weren't on the schedule.  I danced to the band and met a girl there named Sara.  When I was dancing she smiled at me and seemed to like it.  She seemed to be by herself, and she was smiling at me so I said hi to her.  We ended up spending like five hours together.  First we went to see Delta Spirit and talked when there were gaps in the music.  We saw X and then maybe Alo.  I think it was at Alo that we saw a juggler.  He could do tricks with the balls when he juggled three or four, like different throwing patterns and he could even juggle five balls.  I juggled a little bit with him, just the normal three ball pattern that I know.  And then he showed me a new thing I could do, throwing over instead of under the ball in the air.  Sara tried to juggle too for a second and got like three in a row.  The juggler said he was in a circus in Lake Tahoe.  He did another trick a handstand, and then I tried it too and did a handstand too.  It felt really good to do the handstand. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.  Sara is a really beautiful girl who looked almost perfect if there is perfect, she made me think of White Tara from Buddhism and reminded me of her.  When she said her name was Sara, she reminded me of a swing dance teacher, Sara Lapan from Swing Ann Arbor and I almost saw Sara Lapan in her.  I got a couple birthday texts from friends that day, and I asked who the texts were from because I lost my numbers and one was from Emilee.  When I asked who it was She texted back "it's Emilee" when I was with Sara.  That is weird in retrospect because Sara said she had facebook pages with fake names like Emily Miller Lite, and in her voicemail  the recording said her name is Emily.  I got her number at Joan Jett and the Blackhearts because otherwise I would have lost her when I went to the bathroom. She got up ahead of me in the crowd, and I had to use a technique to get to her that I picked up at Outside Lands.  This guy at Outside Lands last year got through the crowd by saying, my friend is up there, can you let me through so that I can get to my friend.  So when she got ahead of me in the crowd, I had to say that and then I asked for her number because I had to go to the bathroom and it is hard to find people after you have lost them.  She texted me back that she was at the spot where the juggler was and I met her again there.  She was with a guy there and we sat together, and then we left to go see the Violent Femmes.  At the Violent Femmes, she said it was nice to meet me, and she wanted to see her friends now and she walked away.  Then I saw someone who looked like Lauren from the coffee shop in St. Helena.  I asked her if she was Lauren, but she said no.  The band that I liked the most that day came when I wasn't with Sara.  I saw The Avett Brothers.  When they started playing I instantly seemed to feel so happy. I loved their music a lot.  I was noticing the stars starting to come out.  The first one I saw come out after the sun went down was a white one in the brightest part of the sky.  I questioned this woman next to me who was by herself why the first star to come out is in the brightest part of the sky.  Then I asked her if she thought in the middle of the night when it gets much darker, if that star will still be the brightest or if a brighter one will come out of nowhere.  She laughed and said I don't know.