On Monday, we went to the circus. The Jordan Family Circus to be exact. The Jordan Family Circus is the type of small circus that gives away coupons for children's admission so that mom and dad can buy tickets for themselves and hopefully some cotton candy and other circus must-haves. Madison won her first radio contest, sort of, on Friday to get the tickets. The sixth caller was to be awarded a family pass. Even though Madison wasn't the sixth caller, the station gave her a pass because they had a few.It was sort of ironic- Spencer and I were planning on suprising her with a trip to the circus, since she has never seen a circus (and it turns out that Spencer hadn't, either) but when Madison heard that she could win tickets, she got really excited about going and gave the pass to her dad for his birthday on Sunday.
Our pass was for two adults and three kids, so we borrowed half of my friend's four daughters and we were off to the fairgrounds.
The Jordan Family circus is small- all three rings fit into a small county fair horse arena. We arrived about 20 minutes before show time, and we immediately noticed that all the vendors- cotton candy, soda, toys- were heavily made-up and we wondered if they were performers.
20 minutes later we got our answer, as the vendors disappeared from the snack stands and reappeared, sequined and bejeweled, bearing hula hoops and juggling daggers.
*We saw an upside-down basketball spinner.
*We saw pink dancing poodles.
*We saw feats of balance
*and fire being juggled.
*We saw a group of Lady GaGaesque aerialists with light sabers.
* And intermediate hula-hoopers.
*I saw some troubling structural reinforcement:
But I guess it was working.
And we saw tigers, which everyone agreed was the best part. They were the first act.
Ok, I loved this post. Nothing like a low budget circus to blog about. Loved the bleacher quality control tape.
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