Monday, October 4, 2010

Day off with a long wait and a short drive.

(Fire whip)
The SNMSF is over and we are in Albuquerque with fairly strong winds and a slight threat of thunderstorms in the forecast. We got out of Las Cruces at nearly 3pm after waiting all that time for the person with the POBox key for the fair to be located and then contacted. We had two very very very important pieces of mail due last Friday to the Fair's PO Box. On Friday and Saturday the office told us the pieces of mail weren't at the PO yet. Turns out when i spoke with the manager no one had been to the PO since Thursday. The office misspoke? Our hope was to have the mail by this morning and get on our way but instead we spent the day mulling around the prisoner clean up crews and an empty fairgrounds. I had a headache the size of New Mexico but that was relieved when it was reported that the girl with the key was on her way with our mail. I'm not angry with the fair or the management, though I wish the office would've been more honest or whoever wasn't would've been. Also found out that our FEMA reject trailer that was meant as a replacement for a hotel room ala our contract...you know the one that had a broken gas pipe, leaked inside and outside with grey water and had a few other problems I mentioned before. Well, the company who loaned it to the fair thought it was just going to be used as a changing room. So we were given a less than livable one. To the fair's compliment their facilities crew did get hot water running in it and with the exception of the wet carpet every time they showered it turned out OK.
Just wanted to show you Miles does well on the wire too.





Double Volcano



Buttercup




Mami and Buttercup after the show. Audience folk can pet and take pictures with him.






OMG is she OK?








Yeah!








Nick.








This is one of the many things we did to kill time while waiting for the mail....frisbee, playing with the dog, email, and the like were also on the menu of stuff to kill time. I hate waiting.







This is the same shot position of our staging area minus the stage...see a couple of blog entries back for the first shot with the stage.












Kids who became Las Cruces' newest circus performers from yesterday.
































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