Well It’s our last Saturday on our big trip—couldn’t say last Saturday on the road—cause obviously we have more shows this year—but we will be taking long showers by next week!
Thursday was our last vacation day and we had a good one. After a slow morning in which dumping the trailer was the highlight--Stacy and I hit our favorite restaurant Pei Wei. Then we headed back to get ready for the Special Shapes Gow-deo.
We showed up and Denise & Rick were happy to see us—we loaded up our extra artist friends we had brought and piled into the 2 balloon chase vehicles and drove into the balloon park through the back door. The evening included a potluck dinner, lots of drinks and champagne, wandering through the crowds, and finally the wind died down and it was a great glow—followed by even better fireworks. We were home by 9 and the sad thing is that the “regular” public wasn’t even out of the park by then—let alone the traffic jam to leave. We are so lucky and the word is spreading through the artists we have a good thing going, we already have others that want us to take them next year.
Denise & Rick are 2 veterinarians that were customers of ours and they called us up several years ago to invite us into their ballooning clan. They have 2 balloons (Boobalina & Toots) that make up the “Tit’s Team”. Obviously it was a team we could fit right into—the group is very eclectic and many only come for the Balloon Festival, but there are no strangers. They had to move their base—usually in a junky backyard close to the field—to a new place this year—a Pet Memorial Crematorium—still close to the field. So not only is the whole thing fun, we got a tour of a state of the art crematorium. Kind of think we should be going into that business! But once again I did a first in life—I partied at a crematorium—we do live a strange life…
Friday was show time…but the money forgot to come. Whole new mood and although we did well over $5000 last weekend, our first day this weekend was $300. Just pitiful. And since this is already Saturday I’m sorry to say it isn’t much better. We are well on our way to having the worst weekend we’ve ever had down here. Guess our own concerns about losing 20% of the savings we’ve never had before this year—have a few other people concerned too. Looks like I need to get started on my plan D in marketing. I always have another plan…and we did have last weekend.
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