Rain Masters

First, we made it. We finished our 2 days at the Goshen Fair: the last day started with terrible thunderstorms. The plan was for us to provide entertainment for the seniors morning event and then do an afternoon show. But storms came rolling in. The funny thing is that didn't keep around 200 seniors from coming.
So we put the kids in strolling costumes:

Miles was there as the Penguin as well...but we had to stand around a long time as various people gave speeches and he eventually overheated and nearly passed out so we had him get out.  The tent next to this one was the medical check up tent where the kids dressed for this event and there was a nurse there who gave Miles a once over just to make sure he was ok...he was.
Oh, and I took a Cholesterol test while there (my January test showed it high) but traveling and eating better has got it int he healthy range!!!!YAY!

Our last show in Goshen was remarkable. SRO.....people standing sitting everywhere. And the show went off beautifully  The clients were very happy.

It was amazing how fast the kids packed up. We were done and out of there by 7pm and on our way to Iowa.

But before I get to that I have to mention three things.  First, there were a lot of Amish in Goshen. I never thunk it.\:

Second: we love to try local food and this fair treated all 11 of us each day to a local vendors' food. The first day was a chicken dinner and Pit-atoes... outstanding:

 The next day they served us an Amish meal called a "Haystack"...it was a lot like a nacho supreme kind of meal but with green and black olives, saltines, meats, vegies, and more all in a big stack. It was fantastic.  (Sorry no picture....I was too hungry)

I am not as young as I used to be and these over nights after doing shows all day are hard. We did it though. We arrived in La Mars, IA at 5:30 Am Central time and Nick and I were wiped out....me more than him.

Still while I slept or tried to the kids set up the whole show banner line, trapeze, and all and got everything looking great. (I will post pix tomorrow). As we set up well over 50 different people from last year came by and said hi and how much they were looking forward to us being back. We have a lot of fans here. Over 150 of my facebook fans are from this area.

Now, every venue we have performed at on this tour has been suffering from the big drought. And within 48 hours of our arrival rain comes.  It happened AT EVERY VENUE so far (go back and read the blogs....
Guess what....at both our second and third show, after over 2 months of no rain it started to sprinkle, the shower, then it stopped. Then it opened up. During our last show, in spite of the rain folks sat in the bleaches, on the sopping fomrally dry grass and watch us put on a "rain" version of our show. I even had a small 6X6 canopy put on stage so I wouldn't damage props and mics.

We are the rain makers!

A couple of notes: Brandon Parker our cousin has joined us and Jim and he did do a new routine today but the weather kept us busy and we missed getting any shots of it.  He's a good kid and is very helpful. eager to learn and eager to help[ out.  Him and Victor are the same age so they buddy around all the time.