Holiday Banquet in Denver
Thanks to Steve and Chad who found a great place for the banquet this year at Fossil Trace Golf Course. They have a full-scale replica of a Triceratops in the entry! Gene did a wonderful job as the MC and with 75 attendees all had a great time with food, friends, and magic. President Andrew Bates performed a Broken Wand ceremony for Lin Kier while his family was present. Andrew did a ring on rope routine and Dave Neighbors did some fantastic coin magic. Dave also changed a red silk into white and then blended them together. VP Steve Davis did a comedy cards across routine. John Walker from Australia did a fun jumbo card stab with a huge knife and his helper successfully stabbed the correct card and not a finger. Mysto performed his cups and balls routine, which ended up with three huge puffballs and then a coconut, appeared under his hat! Gary Jenkins did a Do as I Do routine where a chicken was used to signal the next spectator that it was their turn to continue with the sequence. Chris Manos did a $6 repeat bill routine. He ended with numbers being called out by spectators and he wrote them on a white board. Chris made a prediction, then without looking, the ‘wipers’ wiped off the white board. Low and behold the only numbers remaining were his predicted numbers! His niece and her friend Kimberly and Leah used a Joker Tube and the Magic Switchboard for their act. Gregg Tobo tried a fantastic new routine with coins appearing out of thin air. Next, at his command, his magnetized wand floated at his fingertips, then he pulled out all of the same suit cards and they traveled from his hand into his pockets and he finished up with a new ring routine. Gene vanished a deck of cards numerous times until he was holding plastic cards! Incoming President Brad Montgomery tore out pages and cut up words from a book. The words where placed in a bag and a word was selected. Letter magnets were dumped into a bag and shook along with a small piece of metal from his refrigerator. The letters attached to the metal and spelled out the word that the spectator selected! He also had Mr. Potato Head metamorphosis into French fries.