July 27 Last day in Cambridge

Jim wants this car!
High Fives for Magic Mouse.
Ugly bug #1 of the day
Ugly Bug #2
Magic Mouse
MM draws the ticket for the cool bike give-away from the Bond Slaves Biker Club: A Christian Group.
Hangin' with his buds.

Well, one more gig on this tour....Ulster County Fair, New Paltz, NY. There is still a possibility of a one day gig in Ohio on the return trip back home...but not for sure.

Only two shows today and they were both seat fillers. For fun we gave the fair the bonus of a couple of strollers going out: Jim went out on his stilts and Miles went out as Magic Mouse. As usual, James got free food from vendors....Shmores on a stick and deep fried taco an a stick. Both he said were delicious.

The little ones hung out with a cute brother and sister who were with with girl scout vendors. Their mom finally got to see the show today and was seriously disturbed by the walking on broken glass...in a good way. After the shows it was hand shakes and thanks and check time. The clients seemed very happy and are talking about having us back. We had a very good time here. The weather has been great...though the roads are atrocious (shaking the van and us apart.) Minnesota is a great state to visit....just like Kentucky.

The hotel folk are really nice. If you are in Cambridge stay at the Country Inn.

A twenty our drives lies in front of us and I am not sure how far we will drive each day but we have two days to get to our next gig. One thing for sure we will not be driving through Chicago. Our timing will put us at downtown Chicago at traffic time so we will just by pass the whole city. Also the roads are so bad in that part of Illinois that I don't want to put my van or us through it. Also there are a lot of toll roads and (as you know from the past postings) I don't want to pay a ton of money for third world driving conditions.

So how does a big family survive on the road. Well, the big kids are very helpful. They also argue very little; not allowed to nor are they raised to be that way. Lots of laundry is done (by me) whenever a couple of hours can be found. At Beechbend Park that meant between shows (during the long breaks as the kids did their strolling acts). Here in MN it meant in the mornings since our shows started anywhere from 1pm to 4pm. Meals are bought once a day at a grocer. Microwavable, sandwichable, Foreman grillable, or just ready to eat. Our hotel duties of bathing, dressing, sleeping, etc are done simply...the big kids help the little kids as I do the paperwork and the blog for the day.

By the way, Cynthia finally got that good sleep she was looking for.

Titus....miss you and will see you soon.

(By the way Titus is my 10 year old son back in California. He has a rare disorder that keeps him from having fine motor control and so he doesn't travel well. So he and mom must stay home on the long trips.)