After passing through Columbus and meeting up with lots of friends, our trio headed on to our next event. The destination: Bridgeport, West Virginia - the event: Brideport Benedum Festival. The festival was very small, but we met all kinds of interesting people...including "Pat in the Hat". Pat was a local patron who frequented our trailer and also graced us with his karaoke abilities over the weekend. Pretty much...we are now BFF's with Pat:-)
On our last day at the Bridgeport Benedum Festival, the grand finale was a fireworks show. Matt, Jamie and I packed up the trailer during the fireworks and then hitched up the trailer to pull out. This is where things went downhill. First of all, the lock that secures our trailer to the truck refused to work. We realized it was bent so we couldn't do anything but call Penske and have them send a local repair service. They told us that they would be sending "Hillbilly Truck Repair". You read it right...ha ha! We are definitely out in the sticks. As we waited we tried to pull the truck up a bit and the parking break got jammed. It absolutely would not release, so not only are we not hitched securely, but we can't move our truck and trailer out of a very inconvient location.
Matt labored over the parking break and finally got the break to release, but unfortunately his face was too close to the break as it released and it sucker punched him right in the face...I am sure that was not a good feeling.
About an hour later, Hillbilly Truck Repair came to our rescue. And get this, his name was none other than....Bill! So Hillbilly Bill took a look at our trailer and went to his truck to grad an extremely oversized hammer. All three of us were a bit nervous at the site of what we expected he was about to do. Solidifying our thoughts about what he was about to do, he drew back the hammer and schwacked the crap out of the broken part. We all thought something was going to severly break, but to our pleasant surprise he not only fixed the problem, but fixed it to a condition where it was in better shape then before this incident. What do you know...the two times our trailer has had to be fixed, the repair man just smacked the crap out of it with a hammer, no miraculous tools involved:-)
Here are some pics of the weekend in Bridgeport:
1. Our trailer setup at Bridgeport (and if you look closely, you can see "Pat in the Hat" singing onstage!)2. Matt, Jamie and I with our volunteers, Megan, Kristen and Lakin
3. Jamie and Pat...check out his shirt...yes, we teased him for the pick-up line that is stated on it... "Is your name summer? Cause you're hot"
4. Matt, Jamie and I with our truck in front of the Time Warner office in West Virginia. Time Warner was our affiliate in Bridgeport for the Benedum Festival
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