If you want to have a great family vacation with lots of fun stuff to see and do and perhaps even learn about American Mining and cowboy history then Calico is for you. We have been performing here for 11 years. Every Mother's Day weekend Calico has it's Spring Festival-Bluegrass Festival.
This is Princess Olivia (2)'s first trip to Calico and with Jim reaching College age, possibly his last for a while. So the atmosphere is very different on a personal level. On a public level the gas prices seem to be keeping people from driving out to the desert...attendance is low. Still the crowds at the four shows today were very nice.
Princess Olivia has decided that she can come on stage anytime she wants so the surprise factor of the show is high. Fortunately her cute factor wins over the audience and no harm is done.
Victor is introducing his escape routine.
We are also presenting our walking on broken glass here for the first time. The jump onto the glass from the platform is really getting great responses. Likewise, the balloon sword swallowing and the comedy byplay is a hit and is new this season.
Back to the glass. Princess Olivia has joined in the walking. As I said her surprise factor is large. At a show we performed for a private home on a lake the day before Easter this year we presented the glass-walking stunt in our usual fashion. When finishes (after I, Miles and Victor walk and jump on the shards) Princess Olivia came out on stage barefooted, she placed her shoes next to mine and took up a stance next to the glass. Ever since she expects to be in the routine.
Princess Amelia's mind reading...particularly the naming of three cards from a deck she never touches, I never touch except to hand to the audience (never again to touch it) is a phenomena.
It's incredible to watch.
Back to today's particulars. As usual Calico air dries out our skin, lips, cuticles, etc and we have to drink a ton of water. Fortunately nobody has suffered any ill effects. The Calico dust also coats everything and no matter how hard we work at keep in our stuff clean it gets filthy.
All the show went exceptionally smoothly with no notable bads or goods.
I have been starting the show with my new ball manipulation routine the climaxes with a dove production. excellent reception.
Back at the hotel it was pool time and the hot tub was awesome!
We should all sleep well as we had 4 back to back shows and had to share a stage with a bluegrass band...sharing stages means more work and the time between shows seems to shorten and we get rushed. Show biz!
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