The first weekend was a success/failure due to the weather, on Saturday, it was quite warm but windy, which help cool me down a little, the crowd was fantastic, over 28,000 people came in the front gate that day, I walked in the parade with the vixen in the leather half/mask, lots of people took our picture during that parade. After the parade was over, I got a quick drink of water, and stayed in for about 30 minutes to pose with the fans, after that, I took a two hour break to cool down and went back in and stayed for 2 hours, moving barely 50 yards in that time. Lots of pictures, with kids, ladies, teens, and guys.

Working for tips was profitable, but I am not there just for tips, I am there to entertain people by letting them take my picture. The only complaint I have is twice I was "assualted", not really, but two people did come up from my side and back and vigorously pet and rub my head, while I don't mind a friendly pet from a child to make sure I won't bite them, the older ones need to be more gentle with the mask. I am going to need to find a way to let them know not to be so rough with the head.

Then came Sunday, it started to sprinkle at 9:30am and began pouring at 10:00am, my poor mask will not stand up to a driving rainstorm and it rained all day long. Being in a year long drought as we are in Texas, it was welcomed, we probably got 3 or more inches in that 5 hour period, which is good news to the faire, because last month, a monster fire came within a couple of miles of the faire, it would have been a worst disaster than it already was. So, after taking Neighland and a new puppet wolf named Draggen in to the faire, we decided that the day was lost and left early with no one getting to see Alphonse that day.

Next Saturday and Sunday look to be dry and sunny and hot, so Alphonse with be there both days.

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