US Diaries: Plymouth (Indiana)

After Kentucky we went back North to Indiana. Monday, August 25^th, we left Louisville about one in the afternoon and about one hour before Plymouth, Indiana we broke down with the Slushie (a food joint that makes slushies). So luckily the bus with all our people was in front of us and we caught a lift with them to our destination. We arrived seven o’clock that night and this is the part about working at the carnival that kind of sucks at times; our bunkhouses weren’t on location yet. This meant that we had nowhere to go for a few hours. Also this time Alex had to take another pick-up to go get the Slushie that was stranded by the side of the road and I waited for the bunkhouses so I could clean them in the meantime. The part that really sucked was that the bunkhouses only came ten o’clock that night. One positive thing about that day was that while I waited I discovered a forest walking trail that is absolutely magical but my phone was dead so I couldn’t take pictures (super lame). Luckily there was a park so I was on the swing watching a beautiful sunset (again no photos). To be honest, I wasn’t really happy about waiting outside with nowhere to go, but I’m glad that I could spend time surrounded by such beauty.

During set-up

Going to the Laundromat was another experience in itself too! It started pouring while we were inside and it ended up being so much rain that it reached the bumpers of the cars outside. Waiting time for it to stop or at least slow down was a whole hour.

Sunset one night

Carnival

 

 

The Blueberry festival was kind of fun and really big. You would pass hundreds of stalls walking down the midway – and there were a lot of blueberry stuff (of course!). A lot of my job involves managing ticket sellers and working with the tickets  and since we only had two ticket booths operating, they put me in foods (the Sugar Babes) two days out of the five we were there; the one day was just half a day basically. It was fun at that moment, but at the end of the day my feet were saying ‘hell no!’ There’s always good and bad in every job I guess and I’m glad I got to experience that. (I must include I have worked in food at two other spots before, but it wasn’t ten hours straight). And sure enough that night I dreamt about blue raspberry snow cones!

The Sugar Babes

Hot Air Balloons

After the five days at the spot, we tore down the rides and everything and without getting any sleep, drove four hours to Sandwich, Illinois.