Joan Annis, left, and Karen Backes of Marengo can hardly believe their eyes as magician Glenn Morphew makes a metal ring attach and detach itself to an ordinary stretch of rope following their dinner at Macri's Restaurant, 228 S. State Street in Marengo. “That was just amazing, he was our dessert,” Backes said as Morphew finished up the trick he calls "The Alien Ring."