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Had some delicious silver king salmon at The Gold Creek Salmon Bake and spotted some whales!

Tonight the curtain will raise at 8:15 on My Experience The Illusion Show Live. We’re in Puerto Vallarta for one night only. It’s Spring Break for the kids up North so our cruise ship is filled with tweens. The great thing about magic is it’s universal appeal. It not only joins generations and families, but bridges cultural and language barriers as well. My crew and I are expecting an exciting evening.

My Experience The Illusion Show is worth checking out, not just for the magic, but also for the entertainment. Tonight’s menu includes a standard fare of tricks as well as some quite spectacular illusions. After the usual run of tricks, including one where I was push 18" tubes through my assistant after sawing her in half, I launch into my most elaborate trick, where I turn my assistant into our ship’s cruise director Sam!

My show features a card trick gone wrong, which I resolve by causing a drawing of the wrong card to come to life and reveal the correct card. I levitate and vanish my assistant with two green lasers. Finally, I exchange places with my assistant in just three seconds. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it.

I’ve been told that my humor is at times, cheesy. I’m always trying new jokes and lines out. Sometimes they kill – others not. The next tricks I perform involved a borrowed napkin which animates, dances by itself and turns into a real rose which is given to a lady member of our audience. A place a lady into a cube and push 10 deadly spikes through her. In an instant she vanishes and a new lady emerges from the otherwise empty cube! I enter a form fitting upright cabinet with a hole so my chest can be seen. My assistant then climbs through my chest!

All these tricks are impressive, all the more so if you’re sitting right there. I’ve had people just gasp in amazement when they see this stuff for the first time. But after more thought, they tell me they have figured out ways in which they could be done. I’ve never had anyone guess their secrets yet. It’s funny though, with today’s information culture, when a person is convinced something is true, you can’t tell them otherwise. My mentor Loren Michaels once told me "you can’t fool everyone, every time". I say , why not try.