Alan and I arrived in Hampton on Sunday evening, checked into our hotel, and went exploring for good. We found this shopping center close to our hotel with several nice restaurants. Both of us were in the mood for Mexican food and there was a brand new Abuelo’s inside the plaza. As it turns out, it was so new that it wasn’t even open yet…but people were eating inside. It was training night and an invitation only event. We didn’t know that until we were told my the hostess. As we were about to leave, some nice lady in the line GAVE us an invitation. Now, here’s the really cool thing – because it was training night, everything on the menu was FREE. We ended up having a great meal in a nice place that cost about $10 for the tip we left (which was donated to charity).
This morning, we started the first day of Magic Camp at the American Theatre. We were there about 8am to get things loaded into the space. Campers started arriving around 8:30am; first class kicked off at 9am. We had 20 kids registered for the morning class so we got right into playing a few theatre games and learning some magic. Several of the kids did an outstanding job – caught on quickly and came up with some cool stories to go along with their tricks.
The morning class wrapped up at 12noon and Alan and I were starving! We walked up the street with Brad, the TD at the theatre, to Paul’s Pub for some BBQ and burgers. After eating, we needed to get back to the theatre to get ready for the second group of the day – 16 registered for the afternoon session.
Back at the office, Keith had his hands full. We have several new illusions coming in and a couple going out for repairs. He managed to take care of those details today as well as several phone calls and emails. We were able to lock in two television appearances for Indianapolis in mid September…I’ll keep you posted on those.
Okay, off to get things ready for Day 2 of Magic Camp.