Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Ringling Bros. Circus

For our last hurrah before school starts this week, we took the kids to the Ringling Bros. Circus. The long circus train has been "parked" along A St. in Auburn all week, so every time we would drive by, the kids would all ask if we were going. So when a friend mentioned there was a 50% off coupon in our Entertainment book, we bought tickets!
Because Sophie has been reading "Olivia Saves the Circus" where Olivia, the pig, uses her imagination as she tells her class that she was in the circus when all of the performers were out with ear infections, she thought she would actually be in the circus. (She said Mommy was going to be the tight-rope walker and Daddy was going to tame the lions.) All weekend long she continually asked, "We're going to the circus, now?!?" (and threw fits when we told her "no.")
There was a meet and greet before the actual show where the kids could dress like clowns, meet the performers and learn about the baby elephant. Sophie and Rachel had fun being clowns.
Steven spent most of the time looking around to make sure none of his buddies saw him there. He wasn't too successful as one cute girl came up and said, "Hi, Steven!"
Ben's wearing the hat that came with the $12 cotton candy. The theme of the circus was "Zing, Zang, Zoom!" and incorporated a magic show with the circus. They "turned" one of the clowns into a tiger.
Sophie didn't like all of the noise at the beginning. She had more fun as the show went on. She especially enjoyed the dancing zebras!
Steve and I were really impressed with the 11 elephants and 12 tigers! That's more than we ever see at the zoo.

What a fun way to end a great summer! We're spending today getting ready for school tomorrow. . .we all slept in a little for one last time! 6:00 am is going to come early tomorrow! :(

6 comments:

Shannon said...

Good luck waking up in the morning. I'm in my 4th week and am still having a hard time waking up...I don't suppose it will ever get better :)

Paul and Amy Lacey said...

Love the pictures, Tam. Hopefully I'll get my act back together and get some new pics posted. Looks like you've had a great summer! :-)

Tara said...

Wasn't that circus fun?! We thought it was a great show. We called it our last hurrah as well. A fun way to wrap up the summer.

Matt and Carla said...

Looks like you guys had a blast at the circus, we took our kids as well and it was a hit! Can I just tell you that your oldest Steven is really growing up, turing into quite the handsome little guy...watch out with the girls. Hope all went good with getting the kids back to school.

Jake and Shell said...

How totally fun! I think we might try to go this year (if we didn't miss it already!!). Your kids are too cute!!

Camille said...

This looks like so much Fun! Glad you got to go.