December 10, 2009

So, we got a call for a little interview that turned out to be a big deal. Who knew so many people read the real estate section of the New York Times? Call us naive, but we learned our lesson when the website crashed. The best part was hearing from old friends reconnecting because they saw the article.

We barely got the website back up, and flew to Austria for the tongue-twisting festival Pflasterspektakel: over 100 acts swamped the old city of Linz. The audiences were wonderful - one Austrian even gave us a bottle of purple hair dye.

We took vacation in Bulgaria, eating more wild food than hiking: blueberries, cherries, raspberries, and itsy-bitsy strawberries. Canada, too, offered a wild buffet of blueberries as we criss-crossed Ontario playing more street festivals. Canadian hospitality rivals the Afghans: one man gave us a place to stay, a van, and kayaks for a few days. We kept the car doors unlocked. It was unbelievable.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival gave us the best of three worlds: a US debut, Seth's entire family, and whitewater rafting. Then it was back to China, performing in the city we married in. This time Golden Week coincided with the Moon Festival, and we watched hundreds of paper lamps rise off the ancient West Lake as we ate moon cakes.

Now we're in NYC, working the holiday rush before we go to New Zealand for the World Buskers Festival. We're bouncing off the walls we're so excited.

See you down the road,
Seth and Christina