THURSDAY AT SWEDEN ROCK.

Thursday started slowly with bloody marys and then queuing. There are rumours that they sold up to 7000 more tickets this year, and that REALLY showed in the queues unfortunately. I'm all for expanding, but then the area needs to be adapted! More entrances, more people in security, more space around the stages. Anyway, rant over. We waited and eventually made it inside.  It was just Simon and myself at this time, Carro was power napping to be up for the rest of the day and night. We checked out one of the new bars for this year, not sure if it was because we were extremely enthusiastic but they gave us a bag of tortilla chips :D were even more enthusiastic after that, haha.  Simon went a bit wild in the merch tent, at one point I was worried he would just say "give me one of everything" >< Back to the bar! This one had a little conveyor belt for the beers and cider to ride on. Wiiiie.  Now the main reason for us being in there, and not power napping with Carro, was that we wanted to see these guys: Blackberry Smoke!  We weren't the only ones 😦 We both mostly wanted to hear this one live, ran to the stage when it started playing :) Sunny day, cold beer and this song. Mmmmm.  Then we headed back to camp, woke up Carro and gathered some friends for new adventures!  It was swimming time!! My favourite kind of time 😁 Some stayed mostly on dry land.  While other lurked in the water!  Lurky lurky.  Simon worked on his annual artistic selfie >< While Alex and I had the giggles in the water. A real highlight from this year, so much fun ✨ After we had dried off we were back in the festival area. Checked that our favourite meat guy was still there - he was. Phew!  Went back to the new bar from earlier, were hoping for another bag of chips but maybe we weren't chipper enough?? But we got beer! And sun! In the grass! Together! <3  We jumped up when it was time for Arch Enemy!  SO cool. SO good.  Then quick stop at camp for change of clothes and some after sun for me..  And straight back out in to the sea of people!  Met the devil in front of Rock stage.  Where Tenacious D were playing! Hi Jack Black! Hi other guy!  Simon and I had our eye on a jug, he was very happy when this finally happened :D  And let's just say I wasn't exactly crying over this plate either . We needed sustenance for Def Leppard!  I left my loves further back and worked my way as close as possible to the stage! I've seen them before, they're so much fun to watch and listen to. Except for Hysteria, when they showed a bunch of old pics of themselves and I found myself almost hysterically crying?! So unexpected, still not entirely sure of what happened. After that I located Carro and Simon again for some hugs and the rest of the gig with company.  Finished the night off with a bit of Slayer!  More nights should end with a bit of Slayer. I'm already gearing up for the next festival, but trying to get through the pics from this one before I go, so expect another post very soon 😊✨✨