Wow, what an adventure we had tonight! We've been hearing Mom talk about Kerry Summers for a year and a half now, she saw him on her New England cruise and became one of his biggest fans. Mom's wish came true tonight when Kerry performed in St. Johns. We braved the horrid wind and drove down to see the show and I'm so glad we went! We went early and got to meet and visit with Kerry before the show, he is such a nice person! The show was two parts, first he did magic tricks, he's a great magician and the kids totally loved this part! He invited several of the kids to come up and help him with tricks. He had us all laughing as his magic was inter-spiced with jokes. He also sang a couple of songs in the magic part, a Roy Orbison song and he played the trumpet and sang a Louie Armstrong song, that was so funny, he put a mask of Louie in front of his face while he sang. He also had puppets and is a good ventriloquist, he had a rabbit puppet and then a sock puppet that was so funny, he had a little girl in the audience come up and kiss the puppet and then said, did you realize you just kissed a sock? Too funny, then he had a guy in the audience come up, he said he couldn't get his big puppets on an airplane to bring with him, so he came up with a puppet face he put on people. It was so funny, the face was only the lower part, mouth and jaws and he had a string tied on and Kerry would pull the string to make him talk and sing. He did several songs, he was Roy Rogers and Willie Nelson and at times he'd ask the puppet if he wanted to sing another song and Larry would shake his head no while Kerry was saying yes I would for him. He had us all cracked up, it was so funny!
After the magic show we had a short intermission and then Kerry came back on as Elvis and sang several Elvis songs. He picked a person out of the audience to help with one song, said he could hear him singing along with him and wanted him to come up. He put an Elvis mask on him and told him to sing a part of the song, Kerry would sing, then stop for him to say "I'm all shook up" It was so funny, he got so into the part and was really hamming it up.
Like Elvis, Kerry had scarves he'd put around his neck and give out while he sang. And like on the cruise, he sang to Mom and gave her one and I got a pix of him kissing her on the cheek!
He acknowledged that she was instrumental in getting him to come to St. Johns. He made her feel like a queen and I could see why she likes him so much. We stayed after the concert and got autographs, I got one of his Elvis CD's and we visited again with Kerry and got a photo of all of us girls and Mom with him.
Then we had our second big adventure of the night. We left the auditorium and found a blizzard blowing! We dropped Mom and Carleen off and headed out for home. It was a white world and we could see only about 5 feet in front of us! Thankfully, the road was still clear and we navigated by the yellow and white lines on the road! Then as we got to Lyman, the road was white too and we had to feel our way by traveling along the rumble strip! Luckily, visibility got a bit better after that and the road went back to black. What is normally a 30 to 40 minute trip took us over an hour at about 35 mph!
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