After days of deliberating, I finally decided to trek up to Western/Central/Whatever NY to see Melissa and Cartel.
On the open road again

A quick 4 hour drive, a little shopping, and Friendlys led us on our way to another 2 hour drive up to Rochester. There's really nothing to see on this drive, but us.

RIT wouldn't let us have cameras but I stealthly hid mine in my purse for after the show. They had legit security guards searching the crowds, so I didn't want to get in trouble for taking pictures since there was only about 150 people there.
We bus waited with some of the most obnoxious people in life, amateurs.

We talked to Kevin about his hair, recording, touring, their new label, and how he'll have to "fucking fly his girlfriend everywhere" next year.

Then, Joseph and Nic were talking to a bunch of people, so we were kinda just hanging out, waiting. Apparently, Joseph wanted us to save him because he turned around and asked if we were trying to get his attention and poked me.

He asked to take this picture with me.

Then, no one was by Will, so we went over to talk to him. Somehow the discussion happened on sports leading me to tell BC, "fuck you." Will was all over letting us know if the Ithaca show was open to the public or not.

Then, someone asked for a group picture so Will got all the guys together to do it. We wanted to get in on that but there were a lot of people waiting so we talked to BC. Then, Jeff and Nic went on the bus, so we missed our opportunity.
We went over to try to save Will by telling him Melissa's picture didn't come out and we ended up getting the best one of the night.

He told us he hated us because we were going to Taco Bell, except the line was too long and we couldn't go. We just went straight back to the house to pass out and try to sleep in and by sleeping in I mean 7:30 AM.
We just flounced around for a while and then got ready to go to a picinic. Melissa showed me the school where she works which is in the ghetto.
This is the prison you have to pass to get there

This is the housing development you have to pass where a shooting occurred recently


Then, on the road to Ithaca, even more boring of a drive than to Rochester

Finally, we get out Taco Bell

Who wants to see Young Joc again? We don't so we photoshoot in the car and play guitar hero.

We briefly talk to Nic, Joseph, and Kevin. Then, we babble with Will for about an hour randomly. We talked about chemistry, opera, Bamboozle, venues in Connecticut, where I live in NJ, college, Hanson, Atlanta, and a billion other things.
Will wishes we could do the whole tour with them.

4 hours home, not so much fun at 1 AM, but this makes it better: F'real Banana milkshakes from Sheetz.