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The Fathead Events Team travels to various cities throughout the year to participate in some pretty cool events.  The 2010 MLB All-Star Fanfest was one of them.  This year it was held in Anaheim, CA and we were all excited to attend.  It meant 12-14 hour days in our booth at Fanfest, but we love getting to interact with our fans, and we have a blast doing it.  Because four of us were going to be out there for over a week, we decided to rent a great vacation house right next to Disneyland instead of staying in hotel rooms to be more comfortable and keep costs down.

We arrived at the house and immediately walked through the whole place to get a lay of the land.  It was a very nice comfortable space with enough bedrooms for the four of us and a full kitchen and big living room along with an nice outside deck and pool area with patio furniture, tables and grills.  We were all set!  As we were walking back through the house to jump in the SUV to go get a week’s worth of groceries, when all of us suddenly felt eyes on us…we stopped and looked around…nothing.  Then, Tim stopped us and said, “Look!”  We glanced over towards a big picture window overlooking the pool and there IT was…The Reclining Clown!! (cue the Psycho music – eeeee   eeeee   eeeee!!!)  We all kind of jumped back like Oh Sh- -!!!  What the heck is that!  He was just laying on the table staring at us making this creepy little piece sign with his stubby little fingers.  Where did he come from, and what was he doing in our living room!?!  We all just kind of backed out of the room and out of the house.

We forgot about “RC,” as he became to be known.  We were focused on our strategy for the first day of MLB All-Star.  Our booth was all set up at the Convention Center and ready for tomorrow’s opening day of Fanfest where thousands of baseball fans would converge on Anaheim.  That 1^st night we made a big meal on the grill — steak, corn, salad — and just relaxed, listening to the Grateful Dead as Marc told us hilarious stories of his Dead exploits.  Around midnight we all realized we were exhausted, all of us having started our travels 20 hours earlier in a couple of time zones over.  We all decided on a early morning call time and mumbled our goodnights.  Everyone retired to their rooms deeper in the house.  About 20 minutes into the quiet of the house we all heard, ”AAAARrrrrgghhhhhhh!!!  What the &*$^%!!!!”

Marc comes bolting out of his room like he was on fire!  We all jumped up to see what the deal was and when we looked in his room…there was “RC” in his BED!!!!  (EEEEE   EEEEEEE   EEEEEE!!!)  We all were doubled over with hysterical laughter, tears flowing out of our eyes…our neighbors must have thought we had gone absolutely insane.  We moved “RC” back to his place in the living room on the table where he just looked at us with that goofy creepy smile on his face…peace!

Well, each night, needless to say, each and every one of us was visited by “RC”!  No one ever admitted to putting him in our rooms but each time someone went to bed or even got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night “RC” would be in his/her bed or on the dresser or floor.  Each time it scared the crap out of us…followed by raucous laughter that carried on well into the night.  One night Tim laughed himself to sleep after Megan found that stupid clown on her guest bed like a roommate. 

While we’ll miss many things upon leaving that very cool guest house…Reclining Clown is NOT one of them!!!