In London

Make sure you check out the two blogs under this one they were both posted today as well.

We left Berea, KY under cloudy skies and drove into bad weather. The rain lasted the whole 80 minute drive and onto the early afternoon. We checked into our hotel and it turned out that my decision not to take the show up to the fairgrounds until later or even tomorrow was a good one. For later in the afternoon after the son poked its nose out I decided to take just the big trailer up. The fair folks told me that had we come an hour earlier we would have been caught in one heck of a downpour.

When we first got here our rooms weren't ready and it was lunchtime. Nearby there is a great Southern Hamburger joint called the Steak n Shake. They make hamburgers from ground steak that start off as ground meat balls that are flattened by the cook, made to order. Taste wiss it is very close to In and Out, with me having a preference tilt towards In and Out. It was a hardy lunch and by the time we were done so were our rooms and we moved in.

Move in day is Mami's busiest. Keep things from going bad in the RV fridge, locating and loading in (or ordering various kids to load in) all the things needed to keep this army of circus freaks going. All the kids lend a hand, even if it is just baby sitting Titus or the little ones. CC and Mami made a great teriyaki chicken with stir fried veggies and rice meal.

Tomorrow will be the crazy day for the rest of us. We will pull the RV and small trailer into the fair, figure out our layout and try to make it work. Power is always an issue and with the BMT and tightrope we will be taking more space this year. This is our 4th year in a row with this fair. I gotta tell you I love this fair. It is a small one but the fans are great and the fair board folks are wonderful. I feel like London is our adopted home while we are here. Very much the way the folks in Bowling Green treat us.

The fair Manager, Doug, reminds me so much of Tommy Lee Jones in his mannerisms, voice, and looks. He is a really great man to work with.

The weather doesn't look good for the week, but at least it isn't snowing like in Utah.