The Gainesvillains » Spring Break http://thegainesvillains.com It's Pronounced Gaines-Vill-Uhns. Read A Book Bro. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:56:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Florida Spring Break Options http://thegainesvillains.com/spring-break-options-florida http://thegainesvillains.com/spring-break-options-florida#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:22:03 +0000 Lazaroc http://thegainesvillains.com/?p=1836 With March right around the corner, it has been time to make plans, put down deposits, and hoard “goods” for the week long celebration known formally as “SPRRRRINNGGG BREAAAAAKK 2K10!!!!!!!!!!!.” Where many people swear that they party enough during the semester that when Spring Break comes around they just call it quits at mom’s and dad’s, some of us are still up for putting our bodies through the most extreme physical test since last years go around.

The typical Spring Break requires lots of beach, babes, and booze, lots and lots of booze. Luckily, we live in Florida and this should be a relatively easy and inexpensive endeavor. However, there is always some sister in your house who has been begging people since september to drop a few hundo on a party cruise deposit or your bros begging you to purchase airfare to Costa Rica and that kid from class trying to get you to go in on that Key West beach house.

All of these options take some dollars and if you’re not willing to throw down, chances are your “friends” aren’t willing to hang. Well not all of spring break options cost a ton of money, there is always The Desert Inn <3 Daytona Beach...

Pluses about the typical spring break are:
- lots of sun, sand, and sex
- plenty of photo ops of you and your friends looking right in bathing suits to add to facebook
- free booze

Downsides to the typical spring break are:
- sunburns, sand irritation, herpes, gonorrhea and chlamydia
- lots of embarrassing/incriminating photos and videos for other people to post of you on facebook
- plenty of hangovers

If you’re one of those people who would like to forgo sandy beaches, muscles, and t & a, you can always trade those in for some live music. Festival environments are always a fun way to vacation from reality for the weekend and enjoy some new tunes and camp with friends. Luckily, this year Spring Break is sandwiched by two new and rather inexpensive music festivals in town. La Viance Music Festival and Harvest of Hope.



La Viance Music Festival is taking place March 5th-7th on 180-acres of pristine real estate in central Florida. Featuring 60 hours of non-stop music, this should be the perfect start to any Spring Break. Plenty of Electro, House, and DnB to keep you dancing all night as well as some hometown heroes like The Supervillains and Mirrorpal. It also looks like they will have tons of professional sound and lighting to keep you visually stimulated. Check here for tickets they are cheap right now too, only $30.

Pluses about this festival are that:
- Its central location puts it right in the middle of the state
- It is honestly the cheapest 3-days of music I have ever seen
- the music doesn’t stop for 60 hours
- the venue looks amazing

Downsides to this festival are that:
- the music doesn’t stop for 60 hours, good luck sleeping
- Dnb and Dubstep


Harvest of Hope. takes place the following weekend, March 12th-14th at the St. Johns County Fairgrounds in St. Augustine. This years line-up will feature Anti-Flag, The Mountain Goats, Strike Anywhere, and Dr. Dog to name a few. It can get kind of dusty out there so be sure to have your surgeons masks or bandanas handy.

Pluses about this festival are that:
- Its pretty cheap at $50
- you get to time travel back to High School
- anti-flag will let you know what they think about the current state of politics

Downsides to this festival are that:
- its literally in the middle of no where
- the beaches in North Florida aren’t “all that” if they’re even warm
- if you don’t plan on camping be prepared to drive a few miles back and forth and pay for parking

What are you doing for Spring Break?

Any plans out of the ordinary?

Have any good Spring Break stories?

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In an attempt to ease peoples minds of the threat of getting caught in a hail storm of bullets or contracting a potentially fatal case of swine flu, Mexican President, Felipe Calderon has signed a bill legalizing possession of small amounts of drugs. Under the new Mexican drug legalization law, a person may possess:

- Five grams of marijuana

- One half-gram of cocaine

- 50 milligrams of heroin

- 40 milligrams of meth

- 0.015 milligrams of LSD

What does this mean for the American Tourist? Will Spring Break Tour Operators offer all inclusive packages not limited to all you can drink specials but all you can smoke, snort, shoot, and freebase? Will American companies profit off of creating addicts out of our youth more so than they already have? Or will all of my friends facebook albums from Mexico just start to look more like this? 14b85cn

Here is the story from The Associated Press on
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