Clan Tynker & good news!

This past Wednesday afternoon -- after a great time hanging out with the tribe at the McNeill's house in Rio Rancho, we all headed over to the new library to see a performance by Clan Tynker http://clantynker.com which is a fabulous troupe of medieval-renaissance style performers. It was an amazing show and the kids loved it! Here's the whole gang -- Cole, Sorscha, Parker, Andy, Dan (trying to escape the photo!) and Spencer. We managed to talk them (well, Dan was there under protest) into posing for a couple of shots.

Andy spent most of the hour long show just like this -- totally enraptured. He clapped and laughed and danced and played air drums. He was just in heaven with the whole show.

Elijah -- who acted as MC for the show -- contact juggling with small crystal balls. Here he's working with 3 -- on his way up to 5!

Rebekah with the Polynesian Poi Balls. Later in the performance, she (and Marigold) had both balls by cords in one hand -- spinning in opposite directions!

Elijah juggling balls -- he started with three, then moved up to seven. When it was time to add one more, he announced he'd now juggle eight balls -- and came out with three billiard 8-balls! The kids loved that one!

Juggling pins -- they did this singly and in pairs, even switching back and forth with pins in mid-air -- they did the same with balls, too.

The finale was sword-swallowing -- with two different swords. The first was a finer blade, like a fencing sword. The one in this picture had a flatter, thicker blade like a small broadsword.

It was just an amazing day all around -- we left the library to find a text message from Gary telling me he'd been offered the job he really wanted, and could say no to other offer he'd not been really happy about. So, the lay-off leads to an even better job --and 4 wks of double pay with the severance package.