That is the World's Largest Buffalo and it is bigger than you would think. It looks over the town. I imagine that he protects it. Along with that is a little pioneer village. We arrived a little late that day and missed the shoot out but over all it was cute. The only issue is that there are all these mannequins in costumes in all the rooms that you can look it. Whoever is in charge obviously tried to make it look authentic but the jeans all say Levi's and were obviously picked up in a Goodwill but nice effort. There was also a little museum dedicated to Louis L'Amour. He is from the area and you can buy his books in every store.
As for the show. It was okay. The group we had is a summer program that is run in many different cities and the kids aren't necessarily signing up for a play so they didn't really want to be there. Our Dorthy on the other hand was great. She had everything memorized and was the sweetest girl. We found out that she has been the lead in Prairie Fire shows for the past few years and one would worry we are going to give her a complex but she is not like that at all. A genuinely nice girl with natural talent. The rest of the kids were sweet with some talent but they were always tires because they had to walk a mile from the school to the performance space at the college.
We stayed on campus at the college. We had wi-fi which was nice and a full kitchen but we had to share it with two other groups and they ate some of my food as well as my tour partners. The teachers were really nice too. They had either just received their teaching license or had been teaching for a year. Plus, they were all boys so it was nice too. One of them was interested in my tour partner and he invited us to a barbecue. It was basically all the teachers from the summer program including the ladies working with K-1st. It was nice to be around people who weren't under the age of 11.
Sunday we left and passed back through Barrett. The second week of training was leaving and it was nice to be able to meet up with everyone for a few hours and chat. We were all coming from the same direction and heading in the same so we may be able to meet later in the week for a movie or something. I know that we are trying to do that because for the rest of the summer we aren't this close and we have become really good friends and want to keep that contact.
Then we arrived in Pierz, MN. It is a great town. Everything is within walking distance and it is cute. We had auditions today and it was hard because we had so much talent. Usually you are trying to figure out who you think could give you something but this time we had the exact opposite program. Most of the kids had been doing Prairie Fire for a couple years so we had some really talented kids that we were sad that we couldn't give them all parts. Plus everyone in the town in really nice and they have a wonderful space. It is a gymatorium but a ton of backstage space and the sponsor is very helpful. Plus the place with wi-fi has the best pie ever. I think this is going to be a good week!
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