2008 Spring/Summer Tour - Day 78

We drove out to Many in the Sabine Parish this morning, where I had two shows. The first was at the Sabine Theater, where a big crowd filled in most of the seats. They had some minimal lighting available, but no tech person, so Roseann got to run the light board and spotlight, which she used to do professionally for a number of acts in Branson. My nagging cough got the best of me in the middle of "No Big Deal" and I had to finish the song just doing the dance movements and trying to at least squeeze in the line "all that stuff is no big deal" when it came up. It was a good song for that to happen, though, as the dancing kept everyone with something to do, and Invisible Jill filled in with some of the chorus vocals, and I had to laugh afterwards and say, "no big deal".

The second show was at a small branch in Toledo (er, Louisiana, not Ohio). The kids were really great there and it was a particularly fun show to end the Louisiana trip on. Between the shows, we had some yummy snow cones (with cream added... delicious!) that the library had offered all of the kids and then we went out to lunch with Rebecca, our contact there, who was very nice. Heck, everybody in Louisiana was really nice, and the hospitality of the people there was terrific.

We drove back to Texas to stay at an RV park in Tyler. On our way we listened to some classical music, which Becca has been getting into from her "Hit it, Maestro!" LeapPad book. When "Toccata and Fugue" came on, Becca recognized it and said, "Hey, that's Botch!" We got a good laugh from that. She also correctly identified the next piece as Handel, which officially makes her more knowledgeable about classical music than me. Her favorite is Beethoven (me, too). She'll play the 5th and 9th Symphony segments from the LeapPad over and over again.

When we got to the RV park, we took a walk down to a pond and the girls found some nice obsidian rocks on the way. The park manager's black lab puppies greeted us a little too warmly... they were only being friendly, but they had just been in the pond and jumped all over us and shook themselves off right next to us. Mmmm, wet dog... We came back to the bus and had some dinner and went to bed.