Chocolatefest WI Day 3!

Midori has arrived. her flight was late by an hour and Orbitz was good at letting me know that every thirty minutes from 6AM onward. Kept resetting my alarm clock. Pumped on coffee I drove the 30 or so minutes to MKE airport in Milwaukee and got her.

She saw the sunset in Cali and the sunrise in Chicago has she hopped around the country all night getting to us.

At the airport I found a cheese-head top hat so I had to get it since I wear top hats in the show and it endeared me to the audience....go Greenbay! Besides their quarterback is from my county back home in Cali.

With her she brought the rain that was falling in Cali and boy did it rain here today. It rained solid for three hours....Midwest rain...not pansy California showers. We ended up not being able to do one show because they closed out stage since it was all metal and there was lightening.

Jim found a giant chocolate chip...or...nah not going there.

Jim and I did some strolling at the kids area for an hour just as it began to rain. I made balloon animals and he acted, well, like Jim....which is always fun.

His Henry the 8th costume is quite fetching.

below are pictures of how we occupied our time. At one point we all stayed in the van going stir crazy, making balloon animals, trying to blow up those balloons, and the Wisconsin Cheese Man, Rob (pictured below with his wife Gladys and their 2 month old daughter Casey) gave us some deep fried cheese curds, and some nice spicy cheese panini sandwiches.

After the rain subsided the crowds were small and our back stage area was flooded. Even after some mulch and rock was brought over it was till too wet to risk getting my nice costumes damaged so I went out in the cheese top hat and Nascar shirt. The show went well.

Our late show had a supper tiny crowd and from the stage we watched the mist of the fog roll in as we performed.

Still we had fun but everyone is tired.

(By the way notice the 2 nails in my nose in the one picture below....it's beginning to look natural.)

Mami and Titus stayed at the hotel today. Titus' wheelchair could not have handled the saturated sod. Mami did the laundry and made a new vest for Belle. It will debut tomorrow. Really pretty.

During the rain some of the kids, Midori and Lukas went and did chocolate pudding painting.