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  In August of 1989 a friend of mine opened a restaurant called Kids Playhouse. A food area on one side and a play area on the other. If you purchased food you got a discount to the play area. You could also pay full price and just go to the play area. My wife and I would go on weekends and help out for a meal. One day the owner's wife asked me to put on a clown suit and go in the play area with the kids. I told her I was not a clown. She told me she had known me for seven years and I was a clown. She was right. I played in the ball pit, went up the  rope ladder, and went down the slide. I LOVED it. The next week the parents wanted to know if the man was going to be in the play ares. The kids loved him. I had the most fun. The owner's wife was face painting. She showed me how to face paint. I was painting faces and my wife said that looked like fun. It was. I showed her how to paint faces. Now Kids Playhouse had two face painters. The next step was making balloon animals. I got a  video and learned a few basic animals. We now had a face painter and a balloon maker. We did this for almost two years. The restaurant went out of business. We went on our own and started doing children's parties. At the parties I was asked to do magic. I went to the magic shop in New Orleans and picked up a few basic magic tricks. We now had a three fold  presentation, face painting, balloon animals, and a comedy magic show. We both love what we do. We plan on doing this until we go see Jesus. We now get booked many times because the clients get all three presentations and a married couple. We never get tired of seeing the expressions of joy on a child's face when  you paint their face or give  them a balloon animal. 

- Richard J. Simoneaux Jr   (Mr. Clown)