Sorry this is a day late .... I will post today's tomorrow.
We started our day out in Waterbury, CT at 6:30AM. It was raining hard. The kids had a lot to load into the car and that meant many trips back and forth in the rain. They did it without complaining and they were sorry wet sights by the time we pulled out of the resort parking lot on our trek to the Catskills Mountains. Belle the wonder dog was in the RV as usual and for the trip and she seemed a bit antsy so I radioed CC and asked if she had been taken out for a pee. Cynthia said she hadn't but she doesn't usually go this early so I didn't worry about. Well, 5 minutes into the drive Belle came up to the front seat and peed. Cynthia got an earful over the radio. She doesn't like taking Belle out early so she doesn't and the result is what is was. We had this discussion just a couple of days earlier.
The drive really wasn't that far. But Mami took the opportunity, after a short nap (Titus didn't let us sleep well last night), to site see out the windows. She saw for the first time how farmers out here don't make bails with their hay but giant "tootsie roll shaped" rolls.
Since Walton is high up in the Catskills Mtns in NY we had a number of 10% grades to climb. Cynthia had a few "I think I can" moments with the van pulling the fully loaded filled to capacity trailer.
We also saw signs for a number of interesting museums. But the most interesting was the Fly Fishing Museum....really?
I forgot to mention yesterday that I met a very interesting family at Quassy. It was a mom and dad and a little boy. I call him the roller coaster boy. He and his family are on a summer trek to ride 200 roller coasters across America. So far the have rode 194 coasters. he was a neat little boy. They came to two of our shows and he had many stories to share after each of the shows. He was unusually polite.
Back to today. I love NY audiences. They really respond to my humor and they seem to click with us. All of our shows went exceptionally well. Even though I missed the last show. So did Olivia and Cynthia. You see, Olivia, somehow ripped a major gash on the top of her foot while in our box trailer. Cynthia thinks she knows where it happened but I won't know until I am back at the trailer tomorrow. We had to run off to the emergency room...it was a very nasty gash. Fortunately for us the ER wasn't busy and we were seen right away. The nurses, PA and entire staff where very friendly. They fell in love with Olivia and tried their hardest to keep her calm and happy. She took the Novocain injections very badly, they stung and burned she said. But after the juice kicked in she barely noticed the stitching. She got 8! Cynthia helped a lot at the ER comforting and holding her.
Mean while back at the fair, James and Miles put on a juggling, fire-eating, and bull whip show. The word I got when I got back to the fair was they did an awesome job. Miles apparently did one of his best fire-eating routines ever. He finally was able to light his tongue on fire. And his fire-blow was his biggest to date. James' humor made the day.
Thank God for such good kids. They mobilized and got everything done.
Our hotel is very old but cute. The box spring are real springs, like you see in old movies. Tonight we are in a little room but will move to a cabin tomorrow. It doesn't have Wi-fi so I am writing this before I head out to the local Mc Donald's to use their Wi-fi and upload it.
The boys will spend their nights at the RV and come here in the morning to shower. Our entire situation as far as space and convience is tough compared to all our other venues this year. But the people are the best over all audiences anywhere.
The manager from the Ulster County fair here in NY, the man who basically introduced me to the manager here and by that connection is responsible for us getting this gig, stopped by with his grandson and daughter. It was nice to see them again.
No comments:
Post a Comment