VLV XV Saturday

On Saturday we slept in a bit, had lunch at the Oyster Bar and headed to the car show. 

I knew I had to get a photo with these two sailors in front of the Sailor Jerry car! I wore the 4 piece Ruth Clarage of Jamaica set Zack bought me. Around the casino I wore the cover up dress. Then to the car show I wore the playsuit with cover-up top, and then to the pool I wore just the playsuit- so versatile! I wore my hair up in pincurls because the night before I fell asleep in the bathtub (eek! small amount of very cold water though), and woke up about 7 am and got into bed with a half wet head, so my wet set was screwed. My solution was to bathe again and set it in pincurls while wet so it would be curly by dinner. Worked like a charm! Gotta improvise sometimes!

Zack buying his sweetheart some ice cream. 

Some cool roadsters 

The Ventures! 

We missed the original Flyrite Boys, which was disappointing, but we just couldn't get up that early with the night we had before. But we did have a lot of fun watching The Ventures as we are big fans, but it was hot and crowded so we gave up after about 30 mins. At least we caught most of the set. You can hear the music all throughout the car show while you mingle, which is nice. That is how we heard Duane Eddie too (we have seen him before, same with Nokie of The Ventures). I am not into neo that much, so we didn't stay for The Polecats. But the people that saw it said it was great. 

With the VLV car. You can never have enough pics with this car!

Then we headed to the pool party. All the cool people where there as you can see!

The Hula Girls

The spa looks nice....

Nice to rest your feet in after a long day standing on the asphalt.

Of course you always run into friends!

After a while at the spa I went back to the room to get ready for the night. First stop of the evening was Deke's Guitar Geek Festival:

We were so lucky to be there and see the special guest.....

Drum roll please......

JD McPherson!!! We were going to see him that night anyway, but it seemed extra special to see him before anyone else did! It was a delightful treat!

He played a Little Richard song.....swoon! 

JD + Little Richard=  Happy Dollie

Front Row! 

There were a ton of great acts at The Guitar Geek Fest this year- maybe the best yet!

The next show we went to see was our good friends The SideWynders!

Rene

Me, Franny, Amber and Chris

Cute!

Reagan and I. 

Huge crowd ready to see JD!

All the girls and I made sure to get front row parking. I had to take photos for all of you that couldn't be there!

JD McPherson!!!

I have to be honest- We were half expecting him to suck. I know the album is the best ever and his YouTube videos were great, but he has been touring non-stop and that can take a lot out of a person. We though he might be tired come Viva. We thought it could all just be hype that blew him way out of proportion. 

But, I am happy to report that he was way BETTER than I was expecting!

The band was high energy the whole time. JD was jumping around the stage, Jimmy was hamming it up on the bass, and Alex was killing it on the maracas while also drumming! The crowd was digging it too-cheering and singing along to every song, to the point that JD just put the microphone into the crowd and let them sing. It was fan-freakin'-tastic! Way better then I was hoping for!

Taking a bow

I guess purple was the color for Saturday! 

Zack got some love too- from Jason. 

With Kim Smallwood

Mary is my taller twin sister. I wore an Alfred Shaheen two piece pant set and she wore an original Mr. Tiny version with a crop top- soooo cute!

Let it be publicly known that I am over Crazy Joe. My new nerd boyfriend is Alex Hall......he just doesn't know it yet. Yes, you can quote me on that. Don't we look cute together? We already have matching tee shirts too!

One more photo with the lovely Holly. 

Then I decided it was time for a little dancing! I made time for it, I should say. 

Strolling!

What the boys do while we dance- sit. 

Bopping!

My new friend Kescha. He liked to play the air guitar while bopping- I loved that move and decided we needed to be friends.

Mary and Chris jiving 

Alana and Deen dancing

I got one photo of me goofy-foot jiving. 

Dancing and frapachinos make us happy and wired! 

I am so happy that I actually got to dance on Saturday. Each night about this time I left my camera and purse in the room and went to the Big Easy record hop. I like sitting in there, chatting and drinking, but I didn't like dancing in there. I am a dance floor hog and can't dance on a crowded floor like that. So after doing that for a while we always ended up eating something and getting to bed about 5am or so.  

Pretty standard for Viva. 

Saturday really was the best day band-wise. But, I have to be honest (and I may get shit for this) I was much more impressed with a set on Sunday......

Stay tuned!

XOXO

Dollie

VLV XV Friday

We started Friday afternoon at the pool party. I wore the deadstock pink and white seersucker 3 piece set I got at VLV last year. I paired it with a vintage pink hair scarf and pink and white vintage boat oxfords. 

With my honey 

Pablo and Zack, two good looking guys!

The Hula Girls

I wore my Fifi two piece from Vintage Suits By Mary. I have never got so much attention in a swimsuit before. I swear everyone wanted to take a picture with me! I think they were hoping if they looked hard enough it would become see-through.....nope, not even in the water!

After the pool party I headed back up to the room to change and there was a practice session going on.  While Blue Collar Combo practiced I decorated the hotel room for my bachelorette party that night. 

Snacks.....

bar....

decorations....

and games! What more could you want?

I wore an atomic novelty dress with ships in bottles. 

Then I made it back down stairs right before Blue Collar Combo went on. 

Backstage posing for photos. 

No idea what is happening here.

Sandra, Ramon, and Chris

Blue Collar Combo: Zack Simpson, Chris Sprague, Travis Mullins and Brandon Dixon

Robert and Pete

Blue Collar Combo finally on stage. 

Travis

Reagan and Brian

Amber and Chris

They had a huge crowd!

Jim and Kay

My main man! Sorry ladies, he is taken. 

Mary, Alana and I. 

Deen, Dawn, and Kat

Just some of the girls.

As always, Blue Collar Combo killed it! Everyone loved them. 

Big Sandy pimping the new CD. I will post about the CD asap, with a possible giveaway, so stay tuned!

After a great show and encore, BCC when out to the lobby to sell their new CD. 

I helped them sell the CDs and we did great! They went like hot cakes! 

Me with Des of The League of International Party Girls. I was rocking a vintage veil, LIPG pin,  and sash for my bachlorette party.

This girl was the cutest ever. I love her dress!

After that great show we went back up to my room for a little bit of bachelorette fun!

My Honeybee VP Reagan made the best bachelorette-themed cake pops! Not only were they super cute, they were super duper yummy!

Who knows what these two hens are squawking about. 

Reagan and I posing with her cockpops. 

Sandra!

I needed a new jumping on the bed photo. 

I have such fun and cute friends. I am so lucky!

Then we played a game involving eating cake pops blindfolded. 

Most of the photos are just too over the top to post here. ha ha 

So, I will only post these few. The last thing I need is some deranged fan to photoshop real body parts into the photos and spread them online.  Oi vay.  

Then we played pin the kiss on the man! 

Zack came back to the room to drop off his guitar and the girls pounced on him. You would think they had never seen a man before!

Deke even got in on the cake pop action! He preferred the boob pops though. 

Planet Rockers 

Cara and her french friend

Holly with her super secret dress on! Looks fab as expected. 

Si Cranston's first set of the weekend. More on him on the Sunday post.

Right about NOW is when I stopped remembering the night. ha ha ha. Here we are doing more "pickle dick shots". I loved those little suckers and bought way too many that weekend. But this sweetheart bought us all a round on her! 

Then we were lucky enough to catch a small secret show in the pub featuring the Go Getters!!!

I feel lucky whenever I can catch them in the US. 

Stephanie and Kevin. Steph always has the best clothes. I love her style! See the dress in the background? I almost bought that dress, but I think it looks better on her anyway. Sooooo cute! 

With my sweet little Franny! She wears fringe better than anyone I know.

At some point I changed into this vintage wiggle skirt and League of International Party Girls shirt. I had intentions of dancing the night away, but ended up chatting with everyone, having more shots, and taking more stupid photos.....

Why are we taking bathroom photos?

I swore I only had one "Pickle Dick" shot that night, but Deen corrected me in the morning. She swore  we had four, and look, she was right! There was proof right on my camera!

Then I had the immense pleasure of seeing Nikki Hill sing again, packed up my one of my fav guitarists, Tommy Harkenrider. 

Why must she always look amazing? Even without having to do her hair? No fair!

Love that dress. 

At this point I ran into the hubby and he escorted me back to the hotel room before I made a drunk fool of myself. Overall, it was a pretty PG bachelorette party! If I could do it all again, I would get a shirt printed up that said: If lost please return to Zack Simpson. Ha ha ha!

Thanks to everyone who helped me celebrate my last single weekender! Many memories were made and lost!

Next up Saturday!

XOXO

Dollie