July 30 1st Day at Ulster County Fair

The smallest audience today.
Amelia and Olivia Made friends...
Bellamy Brothers
I have a Sulcata Tortoise at home (about 10" across) this one at the fair is about twice that.
Here is a picture of our stage.

Today was a tough day for getting up. We awoke at 7:30 but it felt like we were still on California time. Somehow we managed to get up, eat and hop in the car. We drove to Lowes and picked up the blocks for The bed of nails...you know the ones broken on Miles' Belly. We then rushed to the fair grounds to find our stage and set up. Turned out we forgot to stop by the store and pick up lunch. (more on that later)

We arrived at the fair and found our stage. The grounds are packed to the rim with booths, rides, vendors, etc. Our stage is right next to the main stage so they scheduled things not to step on each other. Somehow we managed to squeeze our trailer in behind the stage. We set up our backdrop and created a back stage area. No place for our van (we often use it for changing, storing stuff, etc.). Oh well, we will make do.

The first show was at 11:30 (fair opened at 10AM) . BIG CROWD. Lots of tator tot sized kids in that audience. The response was incredible. We had several people who ended up showing up to all three shows. All the shows were BIG CROWDS. The smallest was the third show and it had over 150 people and by the time I did the walking on Broken glass and the spear box it was even bigger.

James did 2 20 minute juggling shows ala street performer and both of those drew big responsive crowds. I don't know what it is here but the crowds are really great. I'm not knocking any other fair we have done so far. It's just s different kind of response.

The manager from an Amusement park in CT came all the way from there to see our act, take pictures and make a report back to the owners. If they like us enough they want to book us 4-6 weeks next summer.

The big act on the big stage tonight was the Bellamy Brothers. (If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me, Let you love flow, Redneck Girl, etc) They did an hour show at 4 and another show at 8. It was cool to have them there and see and hear them.

The weather was clear and a bit humid, warm. But as the day progressed clouds came in. It may rain tonight and tomorrow...heard that song too often this summer.

Every fair James makes a million friends with the vendors. By fair end he gets a ton of free food. It took him all of an hour to get a free big lemon-aid. (Of course it was a college aged cutie).
As always the kids were well behaved and even Olivia had a good day in that department.
I think I have said everything I can think of.....but then again I am pooped.
Oh yeah, the fair staff here are funny and really nice.