Two days with Big Bird, Hookers and a conversation about teleportation.

bt Event Services spent the last two days working with Sesame Street at the Arena in Corbin, KY. Sesame Street always ends up being a interesting show. It's actually one of my least favorite companies to work with. It never fails that by the end of the show something gives me a headache.

But anyway, we loaded up the 15 passenger van and headed out early on a Tuesday morning. I already had crew working when I got there and they had done their job beautifully .It made life easier for us when we got there. Thumbs up to my pre-rig crew!!

So Tuesday was all about getting the show loaded in. This is what a show looks like when we first start putting it together.

And this is how it looks when we finish.

Like I said before, Tuesday was spent putting this thing together. It actually went very smoothly for my crew and the production crew traveling with Sesame Street  was great to work with. But me dealing with the "bosses" of Vee Corportation (the Co that owns Sesame Street) is another story. I understand being business smart and about budgets, but Vee is always greedy, bossy and a bunch of bullies. So I ended up in a stand still over a spot light operator with them that pretty well ruined what should have been a breeze of a day.

But my crew did their thing and did it awesomely. In fact, we finished super quick. In the first time ever for my crew we were done and told to leave after three hours, even tho we work under a four hour minimum. What that means is that we are guaranteed four hours of work a shift, or at least guaranteed we will be paid for four hours even if its done sooner. I guess we were lucky the Vee bosses that sit in the office wasn't aware of it, they would have probably had us washing their socks or something to get their four hours.

So we were done fairly early in the day.  We headed to Cracker Barrel and stuffed ourselves, then on to our hotel to rest since we had two shows and a load out the next day.

Lunch time!

Enjoying the pool during some down time.

While enjoying the pool we ended up having some company from a young lady (I use the term loosely). After asking us about the pool temp and water, she asked if we were from around there. We found out that she was. So fact #1 she was hanging out at a hotel in her own town with another lady and gentleman (who stayed in the room during her visit). OK, raises some flags but hey maybe she wanted to rent a room to use the pool. But then later in the afternoon she and her friend left with the guy, only to return in a different vehicle with a different guy. So fact #2, they had a lot of friends that like to visit them at hotel rooms. We are pretty sure we came to a pretty accurate guess of what was happening.

So it was up early for us the next morning for the first show. It actually went really smooth without any hiccups. So my stress levels for the day were really low. I liked that.

Show crew for this round of Sesame Streets shows.

So we had a little down time between show 1 and show 2. We had some lunch at a nice little Mexican restaurant, where Shane entertained us with stories.

Show #2 went really well. Load out went ok, with only a couple of hiccups.  One of them being one of my crew was four minutes late and one minute from losing his spot on the shift. The other being the truck drivers taking FOREVER getting the second truck backed into the Arena. We would have been done a good 40 minutes faster if not for this hold up. But if these are the only hiccups for a two day event, I'll take it.

After all the trucks were loaded and sent on their way to Columbus, OH. We headed back to Pikeville, KY. These van rides are always interesting. You have the person who takes the main back seat and sleeps all the way home. You have the people who pop in headphones and doesn't speak. And then there's the group who keeps a conversation going so that the driver doesn't get sleepy. These conversations can go in all directions.

A small example of that nights conversation.

Brennen: " I wish I could just teleport home."
Tony: " You need to work on buiding that teleportation device"
Brennen: " I am working on it, I have the legs built"

Maybe it was because it was so late, maybe it was because we were all tired, or maybe it was just because Brennen just cracks me up. But I laughed for quite a long time at this. It still made me laugh as I was retelling this story, so I think Brennen just entertains me..lol.

A small part of me  would have liked to have been able to tell you some crazy story about the first show that I blogged about. But there are sooooo many shows that goes crazy fast that I enjoy the calm, no issues show. So a bigger part of me is glad things went pretty much the way should have.

Again, thanks for coming along and reading about The Life and Times of The Boss Lady .