Saturday, January 17, 2009

Ice Cream Social

Last Sunday the YMCA held an ice cream social that was kicked off by a magician, John Cassidy, who as it turns out, is somewhat of a big deal. He holds the world record for creating the most balloon sculptures in an hour, and from his website, we learned that he's had several TV appearances. His sense of humor was a bit edgy -- "When I was young, they didn't have 'A.D.D.' ... You were just B-A-D," but he made Ken and I laugh a lot. One of his coolest tricks was drawing a picture of a face, and then the eyes and mouth of the drawing moved. He made some elaborate balloon sculptures, most of which he gave to his volunteer helpers, but for knowing who the Chairman of the Federal Reserve is, we came home with a huge cow balloon -- with both horns and an udder!


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