Grandma and the Croc of Gibraltar

Each night on the ship they have Explorer Seminars. Different faculty, staff, and interport lecturers present on various topics. On Saturday evening we gathered in the Union to watch Barry Lupin perform. Lupin is a graduate of Barnum and Bailey Clown College who performs in the Big Apple Circus for the first four months of the year and then spends his summer performing at various venues around the globe. When he leaves us in Italy he’ll head to Germany where he’ll spend a good chunk of his time this summer. A couple of days before he’d visited the kids in ship school and showed them how he puts on his makeup. Then he performed a few parts of his act for them. He created the character of Grandma while in Clown College & she’s the only character he’s ever performed. In the big performance in the Union, he involved several from the audience in his act, including our friends Oscar, Jer & Alise. He spent some time in Oscar’s lap, ate popcorn off of Jer’s shaved head, and asked Alise to hula hoop. Her skills were astounding, especially since she’s only six, and I think Lupin was pretty surprised with her hula hooping prowess!