Did a carnival tour of duty today, after the rain stopped, here we go (get a pepsi and popcorn)
Started off by swinging by the porter county fair grounds in valpo IN, Cumberland Valley sometimes sends stuff in early, nothing yet, a couple of food trailers spoted and blocked already (fair is over a month away)
Went to Chesteron IN, Sterling Crown Shows, still setting up, scrambler, moonwalk, spider, tilt, 2 hamptons, train, tea cups, and a fun house. Nice little set up.
Went to gary IN, adversting a carnival, used to be played by kenny detty, nothing now, don't know why they still say carnival.
Then heaed to Midwest Midways in Highland IN. Robert briggs says hello to all on the board. Meet Cosmo the game concessioare, has very nice joints. There new mardi gras came from kevin exum. Midwest is having a good season. Spotted a online celebirty, our own secret squirrel was there doing some emergancy repairs. Midwest tilt got hit by a drunk driver in route to highland, and squirrel was on the job.
Left and went to whiting IN, fest is litturaly on lake michigan, beautiful lot. Festival has down hill a little, used to be tons of indy food trailers and vendors, pretty much only carnival now. Wabash Valley Rides on the midway, covering for carnival tyme-zipper, swinger, sizzler, loop-o-plane, round up, cobra, wheel, lady bugs, tea cups, MGR, slide, kidstown, kidde kars, kiddie trucks, astro liner, heartflip.
Headed to IL after whiting, went and swung by Great American Shows, show is looking good, MGR, slide, tilt, zipper, swinger, gravy train, scrambler, hamptons, SA airplanes, moonwalk. Show has alot of fresh paints. The sipper looks great, orange trailer, looks sharp.
Headed down south and visited Burton Brothers in Crete. Show looks great. Rides where getting washed, you know they care about there equipment when they don' use scrub brushes, they use soft cloths to wash the rides down. Duvall looked great with there joints there. Burtons have some great food trailers. The frolic is out there year and looks sharp as hell, purple and teal, looks better than new. The boys did alot of work this winter and it shows. Lineup-ali baba, gravy train, rocko-wheel, scrambler, expo wheel, frolic, truck ride, MGR, slide, dragon wagon, bear afair, kidde boats, jurrasic park inflate, riaders, hamptons, spider, air planes. Gravy train was bulbed 100 percent. Other rides where being lit and taken to 100 percent, looking great.
Headed home, stopped by anderson amusements in cedar lake IN, still setting up, round up, swinger, octopus, scrambler, scoter, kidstown, MGR, tanks, train. Sue Ann's connecsions booked in with games.
Thats it, hope I didn't bore you too much