The Hudson Project Musical Festival of 2014 was the most exciting adventure I have ever experienced. It happened over the course of three days this past July. The goal of the people running this event was to create a modern day Woodstock, and I believe they did just that. They held the event in Saugerties, New York on Winston farm- which is over 800 acres of land. Although it was intimidating at first going on a camping trip with just me and my best friend, Katie, it truly was a life-changing experience. These types of festivals happen all the time, and have created a musically inclined following of some pretty rad people. We arrived on Thursday night, and got our parking space- which was about 5 miles from the actual venue. We didn’t realize how much of a hassle off-site parking would be, although it was definitely cheaper. After waiting on a line for four long hours, we finally boarded the shuttle bus and were on our way! Lucky for us, or so we thought, Katie and I had a friend of ours, who we planned on camping, with take our tent to set it up before we got there. We arrived at our camping area at around 4 in the morning and in our state of deliriousness, we noticed our tent had not been set up. Although Katie and I are both children who grew up around camping, neither of us could set up her tiny tent, especially not at 4 in the morning. With help from our friends, we managed to set up our tent- barely. Our excitement didn’t keep us up for long, and we slept dreaming of the long days we had ahead. Friday and Saturday were surreal. We emerged from our tent each day to see what seemed to be miles of more tents. Katie and I were like children in a candy store. The camping areas were set up and named after, the 5 city boroughs. In the center of all this chaos, was the music area- which was huge. There were 3 huge tents, and 2 main stages. Amongst the unique people and music there were tons of little shops selling an arrangement of little trinkets, hippie clothes, and whatever other wonders you may have found. Although we were exhausted from the night we arrived, you would have never been able to tell. Throughout the day, the artists who played were obviously not the headliners me and Katie had come for, so we would walk around and explore all they had to offer at this amazing place. This festival was not limited to just music, in the center of the concert area, there was a huge circle of 5 blank canvases that you could buy, if you desired. At first we obviously did not know what this was, but as the weekend went on these blank canvases were transformed into amazing works of art. There was a set schedule every day and many different activities were included. It was a bit difficult to get to enjoy early morning activities offered, such as yoga and other meditations, because the DJs who played at night would go on until around 2 in the morning. Saturday night was my favorite night, but it created a big mess. Katie and I, along with a group of friends from home we met up with, were wandering from stage to stage waiting for Big Gigantic, a group we all looked forward to seeing. They played for about 2 hours, and every second was amazing. Due to the fact that charging your phone was nearly impossible, it was very important to make sure you stayed near your group. So, Katie and I were in a group with 3 of our close friends having an amazing time dancing and enjoying the great music when all of a sudden it began to downpour. The initial reaction of everyone was just to scream- out of anger, excitement, and even fear. Although this event definitely made me dislike the rain, the way the rain felt with that music was indescribable. After about 5 minutes we all realized that we all had our phones and they would be ruined soon if we didn’t act quickly. Since Katie and I’s tent was a lot closer than our friends, we made a sacrifice and took everyone’s belongings back to our tent. We did not have our phones so we made a plan to meet at a spot in 20 minutes. Now, teenagers do not have a great sense of time so we all had our doubts about actually meeting up-especially because there were thousands of people all around us. Once we got to our tent- the reality of it all set in. Like I said, our tent was barely set up, and we knew that the rain was getting in. We did what we could to protect our things from getting soaked, but our effort didn’t help much. By the time we were finished we knew it had absolutely been 20 minutes, so naturally we spent another 10 minutes debating if going out in the rain was worth possibly not finding our friends. We finally decided that we were here regardless of the circumstances, and that we needed to make the best of it. We ran to the concert area and felt completely lost scanning the huge crowds. There was one big white tent right in the mid