Every year the Omaha Magic Club has a summer pot luck "picnic" and magic show in their grand hall at Boys' Town in Omaha. Bob was one of the performers, and we invited Logan and Sheyanne to join us, which they did.
One of Logan's and Sheyanne's most enjoyable time was learning how to do Poi's, which are fancy ribbons weighted with tennis balls, and the idea is to move them in a variety of circular patterns. This is the "teacher" presenter of the Poi's.
She also taught us how to make simpler poi's using fancy long socks, putting a tennis ball in the toes, and tying a know at the top of the socks. Then you twirl them. Logan and Sheyanne really loved playing with these. It kept them entertained for a long time.
Before eating, the magicians roam around and interact with the audience doing close up magic.
Here is Bob performing his tricks. He got a compliment for involving the most people from the audience. His tricks were mainly ESP type tricks. They are amazing.
First he made some "runestones" appear.
He gave each participant a stone.
They had to "pick" the most magic stone and give it to one of the participants. Without Bob's watching, they followed his directions of moving around. Then Bob was able to pick the one who had the magic stone that they had picked. Amazing.
His other trick was having these 3 participants pick 5 turkey decorated plates that had 4 digits on them. From those they each picked one of the plates and discarded the other 4. Then, one by one, each participant gave one of their digits to Bob which he wrote on a board in columns representing a place value. Then they each picked another one of their digits which were on the plates. Again Bob wrote them on the board in columns, representing a different place value. He continued until he got 3 four digit numbers.
Then he picked a 4th participant to add up the numbers. Amazingly Bob had written a predicted number on another turkey decorated plate that he had displayed for all to see at the beginning of the trick. When he revealed his number, it was the same as the one the participant got when he added up the numbers. Wow! How did he do that?
Here are some of the other magicians who did some really amazing tricks. I'm not going to explain all of them.
Sheyanne and one of her looks of amazement.
Logan watching intently.
I didn't get ALL the looks of amazement, but here's another one.
A lot of magicians mix in humor and comedy which makes them even more entertaining. Here's an example.
Logan laughing.
It's always amazing to see the egg dropped into the glass trick, and he did it very well.
This poor boy was waiting for this magician to pour water over him after having shown us the water he poured into the container he was using. The boy was given a torn up umbrella, 2 very small towel smaller then his hand, and a chicken to hold out for the water to be poured over instead of the boy. Well when he poured the water, no water came out. Whew. That was a good thing.
Thank you to all the very entertaining magicians from the Omaha Magic Club for a very entertaining show.
Of course whenever we go down, we have to go swimming so we did. Notice all the times, Logan is under water and even swimming, his style. A few toys may have helped him feel comfortable going under. Oh and he had some new very awesome goggles which had 3D skulls on the eye parts of the goggles. Freaky. Sheyanne is always wanting to learn new tricks so she learned the "Nestea Plunge." For those of you too young to know what that is, you fall into the pool backwards. Logan even did it. Sheyanned also did a triple flip in the pool. Logan and Sheyanne are great kids to "play" with.
Mitzi and Al watched them swim for a while. Then we all went out to dinner where Aly works. It was fun to eat there and enjoy her serving us. She did a great job.
Sunday, we always enjoy going to church with the Cardonas. Afterwards, we ate lunch with Aly and Logan. No pictures but we had a nice visit. Then it was off to Sioux Center.
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