So the season kicks off with our first festival of the year. Sure we've down some schools, corporate, and private gigs but those just get us through the cold winter. Today we had an hour drive to Colusa, CA for our 10th (maybe more) appearance at the Colusa Family Festival at the Colusa Fairgrounds. We have become an event tradition at the event.
On our way out we had to filler-up. So we stopped by the most convenient gas station on the road in the direction we were heading. Sadly it is also the most expensive. $4.05 per gallon! Over $1.25 over the same time last year.
Yikes...can you believe that....I just have to say....drill baby drill. I have nearly 20K miles to drive this year and this is going to kill us. It says I can get a lotto ticket there too...maybe that's how I will be able to afford gas...Lotto! Yeah, that's the ticket! (I'm too cheap to buy a ticket.)
Victor Jr is pictured here walking and kneeling on the tight wire. If you think it's easy try standing on you living room floor heal to toe, then kneel down keeping your feet aligned and keeping balance...then stand up again.
Notice the new Anti-Monkey Butt Banner on the wire and in the Background. I need the powder too, my neck was chaffing today from my tight collars.
They say it is dangerous to try out a whole lot of new material in a show. You should slowly add new stuff in and then let it develop into the act. Throwing caution to the wind we added a bunch of new stuff today....Victor's Tight wire routine, Jim Juggling on the wire, Miles bull whipping things from my hand from the wire, a new dove illusion, a new assistant (Midori from Japan) doing two tricks she had never done before (Impaled and Zig-zag), A new production illusion making Belle, Olivia, a ladder and a ton of other stuff ala Mary Poppins, Amelia's Hula Hoop Routine, my new Hot Chili Peppers gag to lead into fire-eating, and probably a couple that I am forgetting. Oh, yes, Belle doing her high jumps and her jumping over three audience members and the hoops they are holding. But it worked out OK. Most everything new went without a hitch and the small errors here or there were forgivable.
News from Cynthia...she did her first track meet and came in first place for the 400 hurdle. 9th in the long jump, scratched in the triple jump by hurting her ankle, sat out the 4X400 relay due to the injury, and had a bad hand-off in the 4X100 so she came in third in her heat. She also had a bad run in the 100 hurdles but mostly due to adjusting to second leg. Her usual spot is 3rds leg and the hand-off occurs in the opposite hand. Also the third leg is a curve run and she does those better than the straight runs.
I will be heading down to the Bay Area this week to pick up an new illusion...the twister one I wrote about a blog or two ago. Pictures to follow.
I wanted to add the that our fundraiser show for the Japan EQ will be APril 29 at PV high School in Chico, CA at 6:30PM. Sadly like all publicly owned venues they are charging the group putting this together. Everyone else including us are donating everything to the cause. In behooves me how public places that were built by our tax dollars and maintained by our tax dollars are often more expensive then private venues. CSU Chico's BMU was offered to us but they changed it to a discount rate of $1600. Thank you Ms. Parenati of the BMU. So we turned to other places. Churches offered us free use of their halls but many were too small or outside. Since the weather is weird this year outside could be a gamble. So we are going with the very beautiful PV theater at the high school They want nearly $500 but we can't do much about that. I guess the Japan victims will just get $500 less because of it. I know some people might think I am harsh sharing this. But if I keep my mouth shut no record will been left and maybe, just maybe, this will lead to more records of such things and things will change.
Have a blessed time until next we meet.
Victor
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