We did it!  After months of preparation and practice our 4 performances went off very well.
   Amazingly there was hardly anyone who forgot a line, so my job and our other prompter's job was a breeze.  The audience's reaction to the play and to the musical intermission acts was great!  Not a dry eye in the house, because everyone was laughing so hard.   Everyone who saw it said that it was one of the best performances ever, which was thrilling to hear!  There's nothing like seeing your hard work and effort pay off like that.
    I'm working on getting some pics and video uploaded, but that may take a while.  Hope to have it done soon however.
   I almost feel as if I need a week to recover from the whole thing, I'm exhausted in every way from this whole process and the butterflies leading up to each performance.
   Now a lengthy explanation of my Kit Carson Day experience:

Let's just start off by saying that it was absolutely nuts for me.  I woke up at 6:30 to get dressed, pack EVERYTHING I needed for the day (clothes, outfit for the dance later that night, etc, etc.) then I rushed off to town to help Jeramy (our play's director) out with the rodeo which he was hosting and organizing at his arena in Kit Carson.  I was one of the timers/score keepers, announcers.  Bad thing was, is that we had a FREEZING morning!  It was about 50-55 degrees, windy and damp.  Halfway through everything I and the two other girls running the event were shaking uncontrollably, even though we all had hoods and coats.  Jeramy was so kind and ran to his house to get us all his big winter coats and gloves.  We looked hilarious, but that was helpful.  Even with all that, however, we still couldn't get warm.  After the rodeo was over (about 12 noon), I ran down to the old pool hall (i.e. Melodrama building), parked my car there and then ran to the free fireman's BBQ to try and get a bite to eat.  Met up with some of my friends, neighbors and family and was trying to say my hellos and eat my food at the same time.  10 bites or so later I realized I had 10 minutes to get in my costume and make it to the school to get on the float for the parade.  Whew!  But I made it and by that time the sun was starting to come out (FINALLY!) and I could take my jacket off.  The parade was fun; we threw candy to all the little kids and pelted the town’s people as hard as we could.
   Then it was off with the costume for a couple hours and I hung out with my sister Laura and her husband Jeremy as well as my two other sisters, Carla and Amber.
   After that it was our first performance of the day, at 4 o'clock.  I believe this was our best performance, we were all "up" for it, did amazingly well on our lines and everyone was having fun on that stage, enjoying the reactions of the audience.  And we had a superb audience!  All my family visiting was there and, though I couldn't look at them from the stage (or I'd smile and break my character), I was loving it!  After we wrapped it up we all stood outside the front to meet and greet all the audience.  Then a supper was provided by the Kit Carson Chamber of Commerce, which we all devoured.  I hadn't had anything to eat except for those 10 or so bites of BBQ, so I was starving!
   By the time of the 7 o'clock performance I, for one, was dragging, I was so tired.  Everyone said it was my best performance yet, but I honestly thought it was one of my worst.  I seriously needed a nap or something!  I guess it made the grumpiness of my character just right.  lol!  It really was a good show though, and we had fun with it, seeing as it was the last one.  It was almost hard to believe, all that work and preparation and there it was already, the last one.
   After that meet and greet we changed into our dance clothes and headed to the school for the dance with the live band.  I was excited about it, and I was finally feeling a bit more energetic.  As many of you know, I LOVE to dance.  So, after a while there (waiting for everyone to show up), I barely sat down at all.  Not only did I have all the guys I know asking me to dance, but I met quite a few guys who I ended up dancing with quite a bit!  Did a little two-step, a little swing, a little Cotton-Eyed-Joe, and loved every minute.
   After the dance was shut down at 1 in the morning, one of my friends, Jill, invited everyone over to her house for breakfast.  Turned out that Jill had invited half of the town over for breakfast so her house was packed with people she didn't know.  It was a great breakfast though, and I made some new friends before taking a few people back to their homes and then getting home myself at 2:30 in the morning.
   So that was my Kit Carson Day experience.  A very long, but very happy day!

Here is one picture I've managed to get uploaded - not a real good one though as the original was REALLY blurry.

Left to Right:
Back Row: Melissa (aka Lindy Lou), Me (aka Dora), Kendra (aka Evette), Mandy (aka Aura-Lee), and Rusty (aka Beaureguard)
Front Row: Brenda (aka Hallie), Jill (aka Mrs. Mason Dixon), Jeramy (aka Horton Smedley), and R.J. (aka the Colonel)