On July 3rd they put together a concert on Ft. Dix with Plain White T's being the main act. Well we like the Plain White T's, so we loaded up the car, bungeed the double stroller to the roof and went to the show. We got there at 6pm, the start of the concert.
All flyers for the event showed two bands playing, some Army band and the Plain White T's. Well, as soon as we arrive some rap group was on. I don't mind rap, but man these guys were not good.
The next band they brought on was some group with four dudes who did cheesy covers of songs and some really terrible dancing. The funny thing is one of the guys microphone wasn't working, so they replaced it. The second one didn't work right away but when it did, they had it turned up louder than the other singers so all you could hear was the one singer and man he was bad, ugh.
The third band was actually good, called the delphonics or delphonic sound - the host said both so I'm not sure - no I'm not talking about the old R&B band. They had a couple of guitarist, a drummer, a trumpeter, two singers -a rapper and a singer- and a DJ. They were pretty good, I tried searching for more info on them but have been unable to locate anything.
Fourth was the Army band. They did covers of popular songs, but they weren't very good.
Finally Plain White T's came on, we've been there for about three hours now, the kids were pretty nuts because they were bored.
The first pwt song starts and Cam said he had to pee. So I walk him over to the port-a-johns. I open the door and he refuses to go in, he said he was scared and wanted to pee at home. I said ok and we went back to sit down. At that time my 9 year old said he had to pee and then Cam said he had to pee too. Back to the port-a-johns we went. Now the area they had the port-a-johns was unlit and it was dark out so even the oldest one was a little leery to enter, but eventually he went. We both tried convincing Cam to use one, we even both stood in a port-a-john, I held the door opened and used the flashlight app on my iPhone to light the way, but Cam still refused. We went and sat down again and Cam started crying about having to pee. So, I spent three hours waiting for Plain White T's and I barely was able to watch them because I was at the port-a-johns located behind the stage. What I did see though was good. They put on a good show and sound good live.
Puppies
My wife has been wanting a puppy and I kept putting it off. We had a dog before but found out later that my 2 year old was allergic, so we got rid of the dog. After research my wife found some hypo-allergenic dogs, usually mixes with poodles are good. She wanted either a goldendoodle or a labradoodle. She found a great deal on a labradoodle, so off on a two hour drive I went to look at the puppies. I looked at all the dogs and immediately saw my favorite, a cute female labradoodle. I paid my fees and off we went on a two hour drive back home. The dog (now named Lola) was rather drooly so I tried wiping her face with a napkin. That was a mistake, she stood up on my passenger seat and threw up all over. I stopped at the nearest rest stop and cleaned it up with tissues - that's all I had. I put her on the floor and started driving again, about 30 minutes later she threw up again. I just drove home in a puke smelling car, I wasn't stopping again. On turns I would bunch up the floor mat so the puke would stay on the passenger side car and not run under my feet. We get home and the kids flipped out, they didn't know about the puppy. My one year old just ran around screaming "puppy" and pointing at her and saying "look!" He's funny.
So now, I have a household of a wife, five boys and a dog.
