This past weekend, I got to spend the weekend with PressPlay in Cincinnati. Many of you are probably wondering what PressPlay is. PressPlay is basically a hangout all day with social media personalities. They preform songs, skits, and spend time with everyone that comes to PressPlay. PressPlay talent is made up of Christian Leave, Taylor Baxter, Pierson Oglesby, Alex Reininga, Tyler White, SighMike, Joey Kidney, Dakota Brooks, Steffan Argus, Chase Goehring, Tina Woods, Drew Phillips, Wes Tucker, Cody Ryle, Jonah Marais, and Lovey James. This group of people are some of the nicest teens/adults I have met.
This past weekend I had volunteered to work the merchandise booth for the event. So let me take you on a replay of the weekend.
My weekend with PressPlay started around 7 p.m. on Friday night. I ended up getting to the hotel an hour earlier than I thought I would because traffic wasn't as bad as I thought. I met two sweet and humble girls, Jaden and Savannah, while waiting for 8 p.m. to roll around. They're are defiantly some forever friends that I wouldn't of met if I hadn't volunteered for PressPlay. Once 8 p.m. rolled around I had met up with the guy in charge, David, and went into the catering room for dinner. I had first met the talent at dinner that night. At first I felt a bit awkward because I had never met them before. Once they had started talking around the tables, they had started asking me questions and I had warmed up to them it was so easy to talk to them. After dinner, we had started setting up the merch booth with the ten boxes of merchandise that they had. So after about two hours we had the merch booth set up. While we were setting up the merch booth they had an event going on called URL, aka Up Real Late. URL is basically just a little hang out session with the acts that come down to the ball room to hang out. After URL was over and we finished setting up the merch booth it was around 11:30 p.m. and I headed home for the night.
On Saturday, I had arrived around 8:45 a.m. and we had breakfast at 9 a.m. At breakfast, I feel way more comfortable and welcome after I had spent a few hours with the talent the night before. The talent is super nice, hilarious, humble, and down to earth. I loved getting to spend time getting to know them during meals and through out the day. From around 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. the event was going on. They had meet and greets first then they had the talents performing skits and songs on stage. The fans absolutely loved it! I was working the merch booth by myself that day when they usually have about four volunteers working it. I had no trouble working the merch booth, in fact I loved it. I had a blast. Through out the day the talent would come chill at the merch booth in the back of the room and help me out some which was pretty cool. At some point we had lunch too. From around 6-9 p.m. we had some free time with dinner being at 7 p.m. For dinner, everyone had sat down together and it was a Thanksgiving dinner. It was really good. After dinner we had about an hour of free time so a few of us went across the street for some ice cream. Than around about 9 p.m. it was time for Saturday night URL. URL for Saturday night consisted of some karaoke, marshmallow fights, card games, and just chilling. URL ended about 10:30 p.m. that night. We started packing up the merch around 10:15 so we finished up around 11 p.m. I ended up staying around about another 30 minutes saying goodbye to my new friends and the talent and taking pictures.(Joey, we still didn't get that picture before I left!) It felt so hard to say goodbye to my new found friends. At the end of the weekend I ended up have a few favorites out the talent, I won't say who just to keep it fair.
So all-in-all I had an absolutely amazing weekend. The whole PressPlay team made me feel so welcome and at home it was crazy. I can never say thank you enough. It was an amazing experience and I would absolutely do it all over again. I mean I'm hoping I can do it all over again in Chicago in February. Down below I'll take and tag everyone's Twitter. From there, you can find their YouTube channels as well. I will also put a link to the PressPlay twitter, website, ticket and merchandise link. If you get a chance to please go check out this amazing event. You will absolutely love it!
Twitters- Christian Leave, Taylor Baxter, Pierson Oglesby, Alex Reininga, Tyler White, SighMike, Joey Kidney, Dakota Brooks, Steffan Argus, Chase Goehring, Tina Woods, Drew Phillips, Wes Tucker, Cody Ryle, Jonah Marais, and Lovey James.
PressPlay accounts- Twitter, Website, Tickets, & Merch Store
