Random Ramblings.....: The Magic Show (Part Two).....

So the costumes are sorted, the tricks have been polished and the delivery is faultless after all day has been spent perfecting THE SHOW! The photos don't really do the event justice, as it was pitch black, with a single spotlight trained on the performer - the atmosphere was electric (and then the flash lit up the whole place every time I took a photo - ah, well!)

A10 fills in the starting hiccup with an impromptu adlib version of his finale. This version involves this nail that mysteriously disappears:

After some careful thought on just where that sneaky nail may have got to:

It is discovered behind his ear!!!!! I don't know why we never thought to look there in the first place ;o)

So L4 is now ready with his "Super Dooper Card Trick": It involves these cards:

Then some very intense and very verbose wand waving and magic conjuring:

And amazingly, this happened! I KNOW!!!!! We could hardly believe it ourselves (and I don't think L4 gets it to this day), but there was lots of suitably impressed applause because the delivery really was impeccable:

Don't you just adore that lippy application?

Another little seamless-delivery hiccup, so The Lad treats us to one of his Amazing Card Tricks (if you look closely at the cards they aren't actually the same ones, lol! - it's not that he's useless and we're unobservant, it's just that he did it twice and the photos are a mixture of the two tricks). So he hands A10 two random cards:

A10 places them in the deck, wherever he wants:

Then The Lad shuffles the two piles together on the table:

With a flick of his wrist, the entire pack goes flying across the table bar two cards - astoundingly, they're the one's A10 put back in the deck!

Now it's L9's turn, The Lad is asked to choose a card, any card, without letting her see (she kindly turned her back so he could point it out for the camera):

After a few re-deals and repeats of "What column is it in now":

Almost like MAGIC! She is able to select his card from the entire deck of cards!:

Now it's H7's turn to do a suspiciously similar trick! A10 chooses a card from her selection:

H7 does a few redeals and queries "What column is it in?" a few times:

And that MAGIC must have been strong, cos it hung around long enough to enable H7 to correctly point out THE CARD!:

Now, seeing as how we're running with a theme of suspiciously similar at the moment, A10's next trick involves this nail again:

It gets placed carefully in his hand - he reminds us at this point that he hasn't read this trick anywhere, he's figured it out all by himself:

One MAGIC clap, and the nail disappears:

Any ideas on where it could have got to? We were scratching our heads too:

Would you believe it? It was behind his ear again!!!!! And do you know what else? He ended up with quite a collection because *three* more nails magically disappeared from his hand and ended up behind his ear. I tell you what.....:

Back to H7 now, and her amazingly powerful eyes! She closed them while I shook the dice and showed the audience what I had rolled:

I placed it inside the little black canister, and then H7 placed that canister inside another equally black and non-see-through canister, waved her magic wand and was able to tell us all just what number I had rolled! How *did* she do it?:

Now L9's Amazingly Clever Cards. They could not only hear what she was saying, but they could answer tricky spelling questions as well! L9 would ask "What does A-(put down a card)-C-(put down another card)-E-(put down yet another card) spell?" The very next card that was turned face-up was, and I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself - AN ACE!!!:

Right up to a JACK we sat through, er, I mean, her cards managed!:

H7 again and her amazing disappearing red ball:

It started out in that cup, she put the lid on it, waved her magic finger (the wand was probably being re-charged for the next trick) for a bit:

And VOILA! She removed the lid and the ball had disappeared - we checked behind A10's ear, but, alas - that cute little red ball is lost forever:

So L4 takes centre stage again, he presented us with his magic trick tin, put the lid on it, said some magic words, and took the lid off again, and we were once again amazed at this boys delivery of non-tricks! ;o):

H7 shows us a plain old playing card she has bent slightly so it will stand on it's end:

Then horrifies us all by attempting to balance the (almost-)good stemware on said card - NO! Don't smash the glass!!! - But Wait! - What's all the panic for? We forgot she was MAGIC and of course it balanced there quite nicely: