cornerstone hijinks.

Oh man, it's totally been a while since we've updated our tour blog! Apologies from me, since I've been frazzled by the road and haven't been able to get myself to post our carefree tour antics... but, here I am, back behind my desk. So here in order, our last three weeks of the tour starting with Cornerstone in Bushnell, IL:

Here's what our booth looked like in good ol' dusty and musky Cornerstone.

Here we are (Me, Carl, and Chris) at the end of our workday, cheesing it up for our friends from YWAM Denver, who made us pose for this photo. Okay, so maybe they didn't really MAKE us pose for it. We kinda like posing for photographs. If you couldn't already tell from the past other blogs.

Here's Jae from YWAM Denver, who took the previos photo of us. She's so rad, and I'll tell you why. I met Jae last year in Ohio, when we were both stuck in mud at AliveFest, and I watched her team spill a steaming pot of spaghetti all over the muddy grass. It was awesome to see her again this summer, and she totally blessed us with her spunk. We JesusBranded boys got a bit tired and (sorta) irresponsible at Cornerstone, so we started waking up late and showing up 2 hours after the vendor tent opened, so Jae felt sorry for us immature boys and helped our customers out when we weren't there- and she did it without being asked, just out of the goodness of her heart! Needless to say, we felt a little crunchy about it, so we were never late to another one again. Thanks Jae, for helping these boys grow up a bit!

Here's Chris admiring the steps that I shaved into his head the night before. He attempted to give himself a haircut, and it went horribly wrong, so I had to give him a trashy mullet, and we decided that the steps gave him awesome flair.

Speaking of ill-matic, here's Chris going full circle to the 80's with his breakdancing moves on the cardboard, courtesy of our neighbors at Christie's Pure Style. Too bad we never got a photograph of our neighbor Mike from St Louis Christian College, who owned me twice in a handstand competition.

Here's Chris and I using folded up chairs as pogo sticks. We tried to race from one side of the tent to our booth, but we kept falling over. No injuries though, thank God. Whew. Look how intensely I wanted to win. Tongue out and everything.

Carl demonstrating some impressive facial elasticity.

Hahaha, look at the classic look on Carl's face. Presumably directed towards Chris's awkward looking stalker face.

In the middle of all the hoopla is Kyle from the band Jonezetta, who blessed us so much with his down-to-earth nature and heart for ministry. His low key behavior was humbly disarming, and on top of that, he rocks a great show with his band. Here we are posing with him and a handful of his adoring fans, although sadly, this is NOT a flattering photograph of anybody involved. Here's the story: Chris, Carl, and I have been making fun of a campy korean idiom that sounds like "KOO-REH" all weekend; the campy part being that whenever you say it, you have to flash peace signs frantically a'la Japanese-Tourist-esque. Well, we tried to get all these people to do it with us, but the timing wasn't quite the best. So instead, we all just look a little bit silly.

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Unfortunately we didn't take very many photographs at Cornerstone, since we were starting to get really exhausted after being on the road nonstop for two weeks... Carl was starting to get physically sick from his allergies, while Chris was starting to really feel the toll of homesickness; and of course, as all the vendors know, days at Cornerstone were looooooong and hot! Anyhow, even though we didn't have very many photographs (much to my regret), we still want to thank all of everyone who made our time there blessed:

-Jae and the YWAM Denver team, who snuck me a couple of chicken soft tacos and let us hang out with their massive industrial cooling fans.

-The girls from LilyWhite Designs, who kindly gave us peanut butter sandwiches, and for also being awesome friendly neighbors.

-Mike from St. Louis Christian College, who we schooled a bit in the art of dancing awesome.

-The cool kids from Scare the Dark, who were kind enough to bang the door of our hotel room and sneakily run away.

-Our friend Rebekah Wilson and her posse, for bringing us coke and for offering us spaghetti!

-and of course, Cameron and Blake from Ephraim Clothing, who we've had the awesome pleasure of getting to know this summer. Blake bro, work on your dance moves, and we'll see you in the pit again...

And now, onto Virginia...