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We are on Twitter!

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

We are twittering and we’re loving it.

Short bursts of fun, interesting, and useful information is how we look at Twitter. If you follow us, you will get updates on where we are, what we are doing, and the myriad’s of interesting people, places, and information that is out in the world.

Our name is married2magic.

We look forward to twittering with you.

Performing in Maine

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

We have thoroughly enjoyed the time we spent in Maine.

Christian with Heidi, Jasmin, and Carlton at UMPI. A very fun group. umpi sm.jpg

A great crowd at HC. Thanks to Ben for the great pictures.
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We learned that Maine is a big potatoes producing state. McDonald's french fries come from Maine. Katalina purchased some seed potatoes that she will plant in her garden this spring. These came from Bradbury Brothers in Bridgewater, Maine.potatoes sm.jpg

We also stopped by the Bradbury Barrel Company also in Bridgewater, Maine. This is only 1 of 3 companies in the United States that make barrels. They have unique display barrels whose use is only limited by your imagination! You can find them on the web at www.bradburybarrel.com. Here Christian is with Carolyn inside the company headquarters. barrell 2sm.jpgbarrell 1 sm.jpg

Whenever we are in Maine, Katalina makes her pilgrimage to Stonewall Kitchen. This is her favorite store for jams, sauces, and salad dressings. Very delicious. The store headquarters is located in York, Maine, but you can also check them out online at www.stonewallkitchen.com.

And last, but not least…the frost heaves. These are essentially speed-bumps in the middle of highways and roads due to the weather. A section of pavement ruptures caused by the expansion of freezing water immediately under the road. Watch out for the frost heave signs and whatever you do, do not go fast or you will go airborne.

An email to warm our hearts

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

We wanted to share with you a wonderful email we received from a lady who recently saw our show. She was kind enough to take the time and email us her thoughts. We appreciate it!

Hello Christian and Katalina,

I just wanted to say thank you to you both for the entertainment you provided last evening.
I am not one to laugh easily, especially at comedy but the 2 of you had me happy, smiling and laughing aloud throughout your performance.
I hadn’t been to a magic show since I was a kid at the worlds fair, which was held in New York in 1964.
Thank you again, so very much, you are truly a talented couple.

Sincerely,
Susan

Wardrobe malfunction…and the quick, clever solution

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Many times people ask us if anything ever goes wrong in a performance and if it does, what do we do. Here is a great story told by Christian for all the people that wonder about this question.

We were performing at a corporate event and enjoying a delicious meal with our clients before the show. We were to go on in about 10 minutes and Katalina excused herself to make a few last minute adjustments to her costume. This usually means slipping the wireless microphone in her dress and connecting it. Five minutes before we were to go on, I went to check on her and found we were in code red. There was a wardrobe malfunction. The zipper on her dress had exploded.

I stood behind her trying a variety of methods to coax the zipper back into doing its job. Nothing worked. Katalina could only give me ideas since the zipper is on the back of the dress. I could feel the hopelessness of the situation creeping up on us. Then it hit me. Men have no idea how to fix a zipper on a woman’s dress. I told Katalina to wait there . . . I have an idea. I ran out and asked one of our gracious hosts for help. Sharla came to the rescue.

Since it was time for the show, I went on without Katalina. I explained to the audience why Katalina was not on stage with me and that she was being “worked on”. I performed some impromptu miracles while we all waited. Even though the audience was very nice and we were having fun, I was sweating. I could not think of anyway that anyone could save that dress. Just when I was wondering how we were going to get through the night, Katalina and Sharla entered the room and gave me a thumbs up.

The show started and things looked great. About 10 minutes into the show, I got to see the back of Katalina’s dress for the first time. I burst out laughing. Katalina stopped the show and told the audience about our crazy situation and turned to show the audience the “quick fix”; it was duct tape. The audience roared with laughter and the show went great.

After the show many in the audience came up to marvel at this miracle fix that Sharla had engineered in 10 minutes. We had a fantastic time talking with many of audience after the show. Of course we had to get a picture of this miracle fix with the miracle maker, Sharla. Too bad Sharla was not around for Janet just before the Superbowl.

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Sharla and her beautiful handiwork.

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Here are a few of the wonderful audience members. We always have fun with the AG community.