Wednesday, day two of Mule set-up

Second day of the set-up and there is still so much to do. Today we have to hang all the lights, run all the cabling, hook up the lighting rack to power and pray everything works like it's supposed to. Oh, and the stage still isn't shimmed!!! We went back to the shop for another load in the van. The kids really didn't ride on the back like this all the way back, just over the field!!

Rob, in a very rare moment of relaxation:

Joe had a narrow window of time in the late afternoon so he came out to help shim the stage. He helped us out on this event last year (at about 7:30 a.m. after Rob and I worked through the night setting everything up due to bad weather!!) so he's far too familiar with climbing around under the stage shimming and clamping. Unfortunately, the army guys showed up at the same time to put a canopy over the front-of-house stage and Rob had to spend most of Joe's time ordering around the army:

So, Joe hung out with Gloria. She was very happy to see him. She had a pretty big crush on him last year and then he had to go and get married and break her heart. . . In this picture, I think she's saying, "Ha, ha, Erin, you may have him most of the time, but I have him right now!!"

We were able to get a little bit of the stage shimmed up with Joe's help, but not all of it. :(

Emma hung out with us all week and did pretty good, all things considered.

Home, sweet home:

By the end of the day, the lights were mostly working and the stage was mostly shimmed. We went home to take showers, went to Shari's for a bite to eat and fell into bed around 2 a.m. I wonder how many kid's take a bath at midnight????