Casual Coachella-Day (Or, How I Spent My Spring Vacation.) (What?)

We don’t take many vacations around these parts. With both of us being self-employed, it’s hard for us to find the time to take off of work to take those much needed life-breaks. So most of the time, we just don’t. I travel for work, and we’ll do quick trips to visit our sisters on the weekends, but that’s it. No getaways. No hookey. And you know what they say about “all work and no play” and all that jazz.

But when I was in New York not long ago, I got to talking with my beloved Katie about the very exciting prospect of Eric, her radical fiance, playing at Coachella with his band Tanlines. Despite all of us being over thirty, we thought it would be insanely fun to join our good buddies Neal and Jodi to meet Katie and Eric down there for some old timey roll-in-the-mud memory making.

We were right. Tanlines was awesome (that’s Eric rocking out up there) and Indio is a pretty resort-y town. We spent our days drinking by the pool before heading out to shows, and our nights in a cloud of dust and throbbing bass, and it’s really impossible not to lose track of life’s ailments in moments like that. Which, thank Moses. Because I think Scott and I both really needed the break.

We skipped Friday night, but managed to drag ourselves out of the pool in time on Saturday to see The Postal Service perform in the melee. All of their songs take me back to my post-collegiate life.

{Have you ever seen my husband look so happy?}

Social Distortion was a definite highlight from the early days of mine and Scott’s relationship, and I could not get over the force of nature that is Janelle Monae. Holy wow that girl can perform.

Vampire Weekend was like joy in a bottle, except for this dude in the cowboy hat who kept standing right in front of me:

(seriously guy, when you’re at a show take your hat off)

And of course, I couldn’t call it a casual Friday post (on the totally wrong day) if I didn’t include an outfit shot, amIright?

Silk Tye Dye Gypsy Dress via Tog + Porter, Leather Bikini Top J.Crew, Bag Epiphanie Bags, Hat Mossimo for Target, Sunglasses by Proof

Good times.

The only bummer was not getting to see Red Hot Chili Peppers because they didn’t go on until 10:20 Sunday night, Indio is 2 hours away from The Valley, and we’re freaking grown ups, so we actually need sleep if we expect to function the next day. I’d still do it all again in a heartbeat though.

Lastly, I’ll leave you with this video of The Postal Service performing my favorite tune of theirs, “Such Great Heights”.  (Forgive me, I was holding a 60D over my head for over four minutes straight. Sometimes it wobbles.) Anyway, enjoy. I sure did.