 Hey everyone, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee today and today is going to be a video That's a little bit different than usual. Now if you're new to my channel welcome I post two new videos every week usually about beauty fashion hair makeup stuff like that but today We're gonna have a little bit of a story time based on my Interesting weekend that I just experienced this past weekend I went to the rise festival the rise festival is something that has been on my bucket list For a while now like I see this on Facebook all the time Which is where you get these big paper lanterns and you write on them You can then you release your lantern into the sky and there's like Thousand people doing this at once so it's such a beautiful experience to be Surrounded by all these lights in the sky So I finally said you know what this is the year That I'm gonna go and I got all of my closest friends together So it was me my husband and six of my closest friends and I had two of my friends fly in from Florida One flew in from New York and we all drove from California Which is about a four and a half hour drive to this festival in Las Vegas, Nevada now if you haven't seen it before Let me show you just a little just a little bit of how I was expecting my night to look like Wow, yeah, it's really beautiful, isn't it? Well, this is how it actually was Okay, but before I get a little ahead of myself Let's backtrack to the beginning of the story and how we got there So all my friends hop in the car and we drive to the middle of the desert and we got there with ease No traffic. We drove right in I got a parking spot easily and we walked in everything was going Fantastic So this has been on my bucket list making all of my face when dreams come true Yeah lesson Lauren don't check things off your bucket list until you actually do them We were so pumped that we created a rise festival theme song Yeah, be my friend just living our best life. So when you walk in there's a bunch of vendors you can get food You can get drinks. We got a spot right in the front by the stage We were just you know having a good time enjoying each other's company Just really happy to have all of my friends together for this soon-to-be great bonding experience now when you get your lanterns You get two lanterns each you on the lanterns You're supposed to write a special type of message my friends were writing very Personal deep messages to their loved ones that recently passed away this year that maybe they didn't get to say goodbye to We were writing down our goals for 2019 Things we want to get accomplished and also some negative things that we physically Wanted to just let go up. So people are writing some very Serious deep stuff on these lanterns like not just my friends, but literally everyone that goes this video was taking around 702 as you could see it is dark So this could be a good time to set off the lanterns and on the rise festival Instagram page They said due to whether they might release lanterns early at 7 p.m. So we're getting ready for the 7 p.m. launch just in case we do this early, but Nothing was said they still have the music going they have the bands playing no one has said anything About whether up to this point. So we're thinking everything is just fine then 20 minutes before we're supposed to actually release lanterns, you know the whole reason we're there This guy comes on stage Hey I'm so sorry My name's Dan Hill. This is Jeff Garry and we're two of the creators of this event Hey round of applause for MFN everyone to perform tonight Absolutely unbelievable As some of you may have noticed we have some lightning Striking to the north of us right now. We've been tracking the storm all day and right now It's starting to drift south so we may have some that lightning coming down here as soon as 20 It's as soon as 8 to take 20 So for public safety, unfortunately, we have to call the event We're so sorry. We're as disappointed as you guys. We want to do this release But we also want everyone to be safe You're not really fine. You just can't get into it because I'm In shock like I'm in disbelief. I I'm in denial. I'm like, okay Just kidding, right? April fools as an April Like waiting for that punchline He was serious. We literally had to pack up our stuff and Go home. I was Devastated like I finally finally Did this and got all of my friends, you know how hard it is to get eight Friends together to pay for stuff and show up and call off work and blah blah blah It's not easy and that's just me and my friends let alone the other thousands of people that you're there with their family And their kids that flew in from other states and who did who knows what and now after he said everyone has to go We see people running like taking off to the parking lot Trying to get out because they know it's about to be a madhouse Unfortunately, we have to call the event run at this point people are going crazy People are on the microphone for the stage like well the parents of Sarah Smith, please meet us at the stage John your mom is waiting for you at the stage people are losing their children their loved ones like there's just no organization at this point Rushing to the parking lot, it's a madhouse and people are being told that they can't take their lantern Some of us are trying to take it anyways literally like an hour ago They're like, oh make sure you write down your messages your wishes and your dreams And then we literally had to throw away our wishes and dreams in the trash cannon Let me go my dreams. I ain't throw my dreams in this trash $1,000 fine, I'll get rid of these dreams Now we're rushing out getting our lanterns and our dreams hopes and aspirations physically grabbed out of our hands Now we're in the parking lot The parking lot is so crazy that no one can find their car Any type of marker that we were using from like the lights were gone free for all good luck finding your car So the winds are picking up and now it's starting to rain Like if this wasn't dramatic enough, let's add rain We're walking around trying to find our car people are hitting the panic buttons all the same time So for all panicking people now there's just a bunch of panic buttons going off And no one has any idea if that's their car or the other 500 cars that are beeping at One point I Didn't think we were gonna make it. I was like I brought all my friends out to the desert to die Fortunately, we eventually found the car There was no easy way to get out of that parking lot you were just stuck Now let's talk about the aftermath of this whole rise fiasco So tickets were about a hundred and nine dollars plus tax and fees and parking so it comes out to about a hundred and thirty dollars a person And that was me buying them the first day available I'm not gonna get any of that money back There was a small little check mark at the bottom saying do you want to buy Weather protection insurance and we did not so yes, I guess that's our fault for not buying the insurance We also understand that the rise festival doesn't have a control of the weather You know, you can't stop the rain or schedule it not to come But that's not the part where everybody attending is Furious about they claim to have shut down the event due to safety because they wanted our safety But as they were watching the storm and never Communicated anything about the storm until the cancellation you literally gave us 20 minutes to run for our lives Before the storm hit, but they kept it open long enough for the bands to play They kept it open long enough for us to spend more money at the bar at the food trucks buy more rise Merchandise so now some of us have forty four dollar long-sleeve t-shirts to always remember This special moment There's actually a full Instagram page that has been created now called Fall of rise 2018 because we did not rise We fell and someone made that because there was so many negative comments on the rise festival posts that they deleted it So now we have a whole other Instagram page where people are leaving their comments and experiences and put in their videos And footage of what happened the biggest lesson I learned from this is not just you know To get the weather insurance because it really wasn't about the insurance It was about like how dangerous it got at the end of the vent one lesson learned for me Is that I always say it's not about where you go It's who you're with and I'm so glad that I was with the group of friends that I was with because we all stuck together I think my friends knew how sad I was gonna be so they kept everything really light-hearted Kept our spirits up so that we all just weren't You know Devastated How do you feel Okay So after all this the rise festival has offered everyone that is going a 40% discount For next year's event There is a little part of me that like still wants to go because I just really really really wanted to experience it It's on my life bucket list, but then the other part of me is like fool me once shame on you fool me twice Shame on me. What do you guys think I should do? Do you think I should give it another chance and try to make my dreams come true next year or should I just give up? I don't know. Maybe Maybe God is trying to say Bianca you are not supposed to experience this rise festival because A lantern of fire is gonna fly into your hair burn off all your curls and ruin your career Maybe that's it. I don't know, but it's gotta be something. What do you guys think comment below Should I still try to go again next year and use their little 40% discount? Should I just let it go and just not experience it because they really really really messed up. I don't know. I'm torn I'm still hurt still Very very disappointed if you were also one of the people at the rise festival 2018 please leave a comment down below and let us know your experience That is everything I have to say about the rise festival 2018 if you enjoyed this story time video or it can relate because you were there Make sure you give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post two new videos every week once on friday and once on sunday So I hope to see you guys next time. Thanks for watching beyond grenade today