Day 2- Big Crowds-Boys Blow It- Rain

OK it rained today. Not a lot. But at the wrong time....right in the middle of our last show. We only had to cut a couple of things since most was done already. And to top it off the water caused a short in one of our power lines tripping the cfgi and we lost sound for a few minutes. Ugh. A shame too because there were a couple of hundred in the crowd. But we did get a cool rainbow out of it.

Belle sniffs around the stew pot trying to find anything that dropped.

Stew and biscuits for dinner. It's nice to have Mami along.

Getting ready for the triple volcano fire blow.

The blow.

Today started of kind of frustratingly for me. The boys decided that RV life wasn't for them, I guess, and showed up at the hotel. In SK and in NY we would have the 2 or 3 that stayed at the RV walk over to the hotel for Bfast and showers. But in those cases we either supplied our own Bfasts or we had suites or a couple of rooms so their coming was fine. But this gig we have one room and are at the legal and ethical limit of the number of people we can have in the room.

So the boys coming to have hotel supplied bfast and showers would be like stealing. So it was arranged before we left the night before that the four guys (Jim, Miles, Ed and Nick) would shower and eat at the RV. There was food. And the RV had a full hookup. Nick was the only one who showered at the Fair. The rest didn't and all four showed up for b-fast. Not good. Their arrival meant I had to take them back and so my morning schedule was fried. But to assure more comfort for them I drove them to the store and got fresh towels and their own choices for bfast food. By then I had to rush back and get the rest of the family to get them to the fair as well. I was pretty angry and later laid in to Jim verbally pretty hard. I lost my temper with his answers. The air was heavy and eggshells were walked on by all until later in the day.

Time lightened the atmosphere and all was good.

Shifting the subject a bit: we have seen very fedw churches in this town. The fair folks tell me Sunday will be the busiest day. That is odd as it is the slowest at most fairs. But, and this is our own thought, since people won't be at church why not the fair, right? In NC there was a church on every corner. Here there are a couple of Museum like cathedrals but we haven't seen a single regular church. Nor are any church groups at the fair. That is a first for us to experience. The lack of churches does seem to explain a few things for us, though. I will leave that there.

Huricane Neal skirted the states but it brought light rain here and there. Out here it was during our last show. We had a huge crowd and as the sprinkles turned to showers most of the crowd fled under whatever cover was nearby. Still about 60 stuck around and we finished the show. During the heavier rain a power cord caused the cgfi to blow and in the end we traced it to one of the cords leading to a speaker. We changed it out after the show.

I invite you all to visit my facebook page: Victor Kent as we have a ton of pictures from Cousin Sayako's camera that show life on the road.