Day at the Circus

My whole life I’ve wanted to go to the circus and used to love watching the movie “Jumbo” with Doris Day and Jimmy Durante and anything on TV that showed a circus but I’ve never had an opportunity to actually attend one physically.  Jared came home from Fry’s about two weeks ago with a child’s free ticket to the circus for this past weekend.  We decided to grasp the opportunity and go since we’ve both never gone (probably due to the fact that we’re both from the tail ends of large families). 

 

  

The tickets were only available one hour before the show started so we got there right at ten to get our tickets. This circus was for the Shiners organization that has various orthopedic and burn hospitals around the country for Children who need costly treatments.  So they had a lot of volunteer clowns that were shriners walking around the grounds before and after the show.   They had some fun free things like clowns painting simple things on the kids’ hands and making balloon animals and such.  Christian picked a lady bug and a sword.  Go figure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They also had elephant rides for a cost there.  It was a little expensive for a ride but I figured “how many times in your life do you have an opportunity to ride an elephant?”  Riding an elephant has been one of the things Christian has mentioned that he “wants to do someday”.

“Hi Mom”

   “This is a pretty slow ride…”

  “Check out how high up we are!”

 

  Here’s Christian waiting for the show to begin.  He was being such a good boy!

 

Here’s an album of all of the shots of the acts.  No video’s were permitted so I only could take stills.

View Full Album

 

This is a shot of Christian and I after the show.  It was pretty hot which is my excuse for the flat hair.  As you can see I’m getting bigger all the time.  I wonder how much good my exercising does when my body just hangs on to any weight it can.

   

I’m so glad we went.  It was an experience that I hope Christian remembers.  It was great fun!