text: In my own lifetime I can pick out quite a few moments of pure happiness and many of these moments happened at the Life is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas Yes the festival is still young and has a lot to learn but it is still amazing and by far my favorite music festival It is honestly hard to explain this festival because the atmosphere is so unique and wonderfulnnLOCATIONnLove love love Something about the Southwest and the desert in general has always been a love of mine so adding great music art and food to it priceless The layout of the festival was also very easy to navigateand very close to Fremont St hotels and other activites It was incredible every night to be listening to a great artist with a beautiful pastel desert sunset in the background IncomparablennFOOD nIn all honesty everything which was a lot of things I devoured in the days at the festival was delicious I particularly loved the fried chicken sandwhich from the Daily Grill booth and the fresh pineapple from the Whole Foods tent but everything I ate was amazing My family loved all of their food as well Some may think it is pricey but what do you expect It is a music festival and the food is gourmetnnMUSICnAwesome I personally loved Milky Chance Fitz and the Tantrums GEazy The Vacationers and Echosmith the most but I really did not see a bad performance from any artist I know Arctic Monkeys would have been my favorite but I left early Sunday and missed them unfortunately I thought the lineup had a great variety and cannot wait to see what they put out next yearnnARTLEARNINGnThis is actually the only thing I felt the festival lacked I did not see one learning seminar due to crowds There was also some scattered art throughout the festival but nothing crazy I did love the swimming pool with ducks and the striped motel nnATMOSPHEREnStraight up wonderful I never saw any violence or crazy drunks This festival welcomes all walks of life and I saw many children It just feels peaceful and happy to be there nnVIP nI had a VIP wristband and I loved it for the most part We had nice couches and shaded areas at stages They also had fancy bathrooms The one thing I did hate was that the VIP area was on the complete side of the stage which made no sense If you paid a much higher price for the ticket should not you get the whole front stage Otherwise it was a nice privilegennOverall I have no real complaints This is my all time favorite music festival and I cannot wait for next year