Kingston.. what kids say

Had a great run of shows at the Kingston Busker Festival. I showed up not really knowing many of the acts (many of them new to the busker festival thing, of new to Canada.) It was a cool lineup with some great acts, and great people to hang out with. I ended up hanging out all week with Paul from Trulee Odd, and Annie from the Daredevil Chicken Show, who was performing as Svetlana, the transelvanian acrobat. Her husband Jonathan came in from his shows in TO with the Blue Man group, and they had a day of Daredevil Chicken Fun, before heading to Europe. Jonathan also proved himself as an instigator.. and we all had a great Saturday night party that got a little wild.

One of the highlights of the festival included a bit in one of my shows that kind of got rained out. The torrential rain started when i was 3/4 the way through my show.. but this one bit made it all worthwhile. I was working with this really great little kid, a little boy of about 5 yrs old. He was really cute, and super into the show.. jumping up and down at the right times, really great to work with. He had a little 2-3 year old sister, an adorable little girl who was intent on shadowing her older brother. She ran up beside hima few times.. and I acknowledged her.. "Geez sweetie, you really want to help out. You don't say much though do you?" at which point she exclaimed at the top of her lungs "MY DADDY'S IN JAIL."

Hilarity ensued. After the initial shock I answered "That's too bad. You two seem nice, maybe I can be your new Daddy." Of course the mother was horrified, she ran up to drag her kids off.. i kept the son because we weren't done the routine yet, and he was great to work with.