Here's our stage.
The gunfighters...they've changed a lot since we started 12 years ago.
This is the Calico Piano Player...he's been here forever.
Aunt Lucky came over from Barstow for a visit.
During clean up this desert Tarantula strolled passed our stage. It's migration season. The kids really loved seeing it. It measure about 6" across.What a day. By our recommendation we performed 5 shows today; 3 shows performed 2-3 hours apart is a tough schedule so we asked a couple years back to do as many as we can. Also sales for our post show magic and novelties are always good at Calico and more shows means more sales.
Today had many more people than yesterday and we had packed seating at every show. We rotated three shows with a special last show that had the cremation illusion (One of us gets turned into a skeleton after going through a fire).
We all finished the day extremely hungry in spite of all the food we had today...five show can do that to you. So a trip to Vons to get microwavable stuff and then off to the hotel where we are all stuffing ourselves right now.
Almost forgot: The little ones are constantly making new friends. In fact, today one little girl who assisted Princess Amelia in her act came back to another show just to give the Princess a necklace she made for her. It made Amelia very happy. But she is aware of her popularity. She told us, "I don't know why, but everyone sees us on stage, then they want to be my best friend and they give me things." She says it in a matter of fact way. ( By the way we really try to dissuade people from giving the kids stuff but often it happens out of my sight and even though the kids say no the gifter usually insists and the kids give in.)
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