I survived the weekend

sunday, june 10th

i survived my first few days in the circus. today i got to go out in the arena during the show- Taba, the tiger and horse trainer wants me to be his assistant for a little while. this means that i will get to be out during the shows, leading horses as they do all their crazy tricks. today was the last show in omaha. we had to pack everything back up onto the train- so tiring. i have never shoveled so much crap and hay in my life. my back is killing me- do they have a massage parlor on this train? the coolest thing was the "animal walk". we had to walk the elephants and horses back to their train car- 1 mile away. we had police escorts that blocked off the streets in downtown omaha. people were taking pictures and taking out their camera phones, the kids were running up and yelling. i had one of the mini ponies so everyone loved that. it was a nice workout. apparently when we go to nyc, it is a 7 mile walk- yikes. so i am on the train now, in my teeny tiny room waiting for the train to start running. we will travel all night and all day tomorrow until we get to colorado springs. yesterday at the show we had PETA and animal rights people handing out crap to the public before they would walk into our animal open house. they say it gets worse in cali- people yelling at us during the animal walks, throwing stuff at us, video cameras in our faces. some people are just crazy in the head. the past 3 days i have worked 13 hour days. i dont have time to think about how tired i am until we are done with everything- then i pretty much collapse. well- things are fine for now- hopefully i can continue to survive this.

until next time,

kate