Well as I mentioned in either a past blog on Facebook report we made it into IA easy as pie running one hour behind storms and and hour or two before storms. Once in IA we stayed at the Ver Steegt Household. One of the nicest families around, the exemplify what it means to be Christian. They even let Jim and Lucas play with their very old very expensive cool guitars.
We left IA this morning at 10am and did a relaxing 6 hour drive to a Burlington, IA (actually we are staying a town over but close enough). Last night the weather reprots said we would be suffering rain and storms along our entire route. But, the sun shone and the wind blew....that's been the weather theme for us directly this tour. We had a hard head wind the entire drive and our gas mileage was in the toilet. Still we made it here in good shape. We stopped off at the hotel first then took the main show trailer over to the grounds in Burlington.
Burlington is one pretty little town and I will snap some pictures over the next few days.
I am excited because I will get to see my old buddy Wade Henry, juggler, and maybe some other fan-stalkers from last year.
The ground around the stage was pretty mushy when we got there. The hard rain from the last few days made for some muddy areas. The picture to the left shows the stage and our trailer and van to the left of the stage.
WI meant one more thing for us. Our first mail and package drop on the road. The event director let us forward our mail and packages to his house. There were like ten boxes and stuff. One box was full of bills and stuff from home. The rest was things for the show's sales or tricks and equipment for the show. Titus has a new trick for the parade part of our show. I will video tape it....don't want to let the cat out of the bag. Victor also got his smith and wesson leg irons today for a new BIG escape for him.
The banner they made for us doesn't quite look like us but it gets the point across.
Once back at the hotel we had dinner made by Mami in the RV then most of th kids went swimming. Jim went to the computer...needs his social networking. Olivia had left her swim suit (really Mami claimed blame for it) in OK so we had to run down to Wal-mart for a new one. Got a couple of squirt toys and a noodle too. She was thrilled, as any kid is, to get a new swim suit.
Back to Iowa quickly. Vaughn, our host, took me around to meet people for some one night stand gigs for next time we pass through Iowa and want to perform We are thinking of four-walling a performance at the theater pictured below.
Oh, Miles doesn't know this yet but here is a shirt we found for him for our night fair shows.
And before I forget we just booked the Eastern New Mexico State Fair in Roswell, NM for October 3-8!!!! Aliens baby!
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