What a wonderful day Silver Dollar Fair

Shark exhibit...there were even real live sharks.....The guy on the far left is Nick our new roady.
Backstage

The whip welt....read on.

the donut guys.

Shamwow !

Day two for us at the Silver Dollar Fair in Chico. Three shows sharing a stage with two musical acts (one with extensive equipment) so our times were spread pretty far apart making it a long day...but not a bad day. After show "one" a familiar face came up and said to me. "Do you remember me?". It was a former assistant from about 9 or 10 years ago. She was all grown up and getting married in a month. Dana was always an eager assistant and had great stage presence. She was also the last of my long line of helpers as the Kent kids were getting old enough to do those jobs. It was wonderful catching up with her and chit chatting. As our time together wound up the owner of a tiny traveling circus who is also at the fair came over to chat and to offer Jugglin' Jim a gig for late September....we will be in Iowa at the time so we will be turning him down. Just as our time ended my good Magical buddy JC Dunn showed up with gifts of jerky, dip and chips. We spent the next hour eating, talking and and laughing.

Back to the first show. As many of you know we have a lot of routines, tricks, stunts, etc. So no two shows are ever the same. In show one we did the walking on broken glass. It's real. And I can prove it as I cut my big toe on a nice tiny piece of glass....it's always the little ones that do the damage. The addition of the blood just added to the reality and got wild reactions.

All three shows had good sized audiences....every seat filled and standers on the sides and back...though the full audience came in about 5 minutes into the last show.

The last show had another fun bit of action for the audience. Miles, for the first time in over a year, hit me with the whip....and for the first time in over 2 years he hit me in the face. It took the safety glasses off my face. The audience loved it. Miles was nervous from that point on....his long standing confidence was lost. We are posting a video of the whipping soon.