Catching up - In MO

Wi-fi problems have kept me from making entries the last couple of days.
To catch you up, we had three very successful shows in Willard, OH. Relatives who live in Ohio even came out to see us. (Relatives are everywhere....beware!) These relatives are great. I even met a relative in-law. Kris and her kids (cousin in-law and second cuz's) were great to see and they made up a great audience. Ohio folks are similar to Minnesota audiences in there relative conservation of emotions. After the first audience we recognized that so we cranked it up for the other two shows and we were able to pull out their inner desire to laugh, clap, and goofah!
I will post pictures from the show tonight.
We tried something that has more and more been showing up around fairs in America...deep fried snickers bar....a snickers bar dipped in batter, deep fried, coated with powdered sugar and then given a dribble of chocolate syrup...prove the end of the world is at hand. It was disgustingly rich...none of the kids or I could have more than a nipple...except Victor Jr who wanted to eat the whole thing (in case his mom is reading this...no he didn't get to eat more than a bit of it.)
We have been getting to bed really late every night. But when considering the time changes maybe it wasn't that late. We started yesterday in the Eastern time zone (in Ohio) but by bed time we gained an hour in Missouri (central time zone). Thank God McDonalds are all 24 hours out here in the mid-west.
We purposely drove through down town St Louis instead of taking a by-pass because everyone wanted to see the Arch. Our timing was perfect; sunset. it was awesome. Princess Olivia said, "Oh my goodness, gracious!"
Traveling with two vans has certainly given all of us more space. The gas mileage challenge hasn't been bad with the van pulling the trailer getting an average of 9 mpg and the other van getting around 20mpg. Princess Cynthia(17) has been doing all the driving for the 2nd van and has clocked over 2500 miles so far.
Buttercup the Python has gone through a shedding but hasn't eaten yet (the traveling affecting him I suppose). We put a mouse in his cage and they have been roommates for the last two days. It's cute but it is destined to end only one way..........
More to follow tonight.....