Come Rain or Shine!

Hello all!

Monique here. (Or Cousin Moey as I've come to be known in OZ this time round)

We 've had quite another week of performances, with two Very Wet shows last Friday (the sky just OPENED UP and let loose for a good four or five hours---very welcome after such a long dry hot summer!) We got a couple phone calls from the Fringe asking if we were going to still do our shows that day. Of course, being from Seattle...why wouldn't we?

We got out as many umbrellas as we could find. But when we realized that even those were not going to be enough to keep the audience from getting soaked, we changed the show so that we would keep the audience inside the caravan the entire time, and we would pop in and out to do our pieces. Andrew even got the grill going and between us and the student cousins we toasted enough PEEPS to go around and then he brought into the caravan a plate for all the audience to share!

After we performed our second show that night we packed everything up as best we could so that Saturday morning would be at least a little bit easier. (as we needed to head on down the road to Glenelg to set up for our long weekend of shows down by the beach!)

We had 6 shows over the weekend, and all were very well attended! The students working with us did a great job trying to 'herd the cats' around to the different stations and we got some really great plates (haikus as well as memories).

The only downside of the weekend was finding one of our windows in the caravan broken Sunday morning. (someone got the idea that we might have actually put something of value in there!) But thanks to the great care that Rod (Glenelg city council extraordinaire!) he had a man out to fix the window before our first show even started! Thanks Rod!!!!

Yesterday was a beautiful day with a nice beach walk with Graham, and then Andrew and Llysa moved over to stay with me at Graham and Bernadette's (which meant GREAT food cooked by Bern, GREAT wine, from our trip out to the wineries, and some much needed rest!)

Now we are prepping for more park bench outings, teaching our last class with our student cousins and getting ready for our day long workshop as well as our VIP show and the last week of performances for the Fringe!