Vans Warped Tour - Ventura, CA

Today was the day of the Vans Warped Tour that we had so been looking forward to! We went to the one at Ventura, CA at the fairground....which didn't look remotely like a fairground that day! The first thing I have to say about an American festival in comparison to a UK one is that if you want an alcoholic drink then it HAS to be beer and it HAS to be drunk in the caged off designated drinking area.....yup....that's right! So we pretty much downed every pint we drank as to not miss the bands we wanted to see. So I don't bore you with too many details we saw the likes of Alkaline Trio, Sum 41, All American Rejects, 3OH!3, The Pretty Reckless (Jenny from Gossip Girls band - she was dressed very provocatively for a 16 year old - see pic above!), Attack Attack (American one, not the UK one) and Enter Shikari. The website said that the venue opened at 1pm when in FACT it had opened at 11am so we missed loads of bands we'd wanted to see like Bouncing Souls, Dillinger, The Rocket Summer and You Me At Six!! Luckily I got to see the YM@6 boys later on and we stayed for the big BBQ at the end where we met lots of great American folk and got the gossip from the tour so far. The whole day was awesome and I'd love to go again in the future. Oh and we were back stage when the band We The Kings were playing and when they were finished everyone left the side of the stage....including Disney star Demi Levato!! So me being the celeb hungry person that I am barged some kids out of the way so I could get my picture with her! Evidence above. She was a beautiful orange colour which helped me look very pastey.....