Hello from San Jose!

Well another new city! Can you believe i have been with the circus for 11 cities now? how crazy is that! we had a very long load out day on sunday in... where were we.....oakland. i went overland this week so following the animal walk, i piled into a car with 5 other people and drove to san jose. thank god it was a short drive. i checked into a hotel at about 1:30 AM and got 5 hours of sleep before i had to get up again for load in. i started the day with a coffee from starbucks with 3 extra shots of "wake your ass up!" me and 3 other people put up the entire tent, 14 horse stalls, 3 pony stalls, put 7 bags of shavings in each stall, filled water buckets, unloaded hay and made everything home for the animals again. we had the animal walk around noon. because i went overland, i got to go home right after the walk. Peta has been on our butts like crazy the past few towns. in oakland we caught them throwing water bottles at the animals. they do that so they can get a reaction out of them, catch it on video and say, "hey look! their animals are crazy!" they forget to leave out the part where they are chucking crap over the fences. crazy people i tell you. i had yesterday off and spent it catching up on sleep. i slept for 15 hours straight. yikes! today was opening day. looooooooooooooooooooooong day. i was at work from 7am to 9pm. ugh. same peta people were there. today it was one of the elephants birthdays...tonka. she is 24 years old today. so we threw her a birthday party complete with birthday cake and party hats. it was so cute! how many people can say they went to an elephant's birthday party? sometimes i really do love my job. well.... early bus again tomorrow. woo hoo........ have you ever felt overworked and underpaid?

chow!