Circus

For Valentine's Day we took the girls to the circus. I can remember my dad always taking me to the circus so I thought we could carry on the tradition. Plus Brigitte has been asking me when we are going to have a "family day!"

I was a little dissapointed to find out that elephant rides were $10/person and minature ponies were $8/person. They were worse than fair prices. So we will just wait until September to ride the camels and ponies at the fair. But the girls just liked watching the elephants anyway I think they would have been a little freaked out!

So instead of rides we bought them inflatable balloons which went over better than I thought!

They of course wouldn't sit still with them so I could get a picture! They were busy playing!

So Violet only had a very short nap during the day and we just figured she would fall asleep on the hour drive over. We were wrong! Gabriel thought it would be an even better idea to make her walk every where so she wouldn't be so wiggly!

Here she is 2 minutes before the show started...

 She woke up once the show stared. Had her 2 minute power nap and was fine the rest of the show. I wish I can take a 2 minute power nap and be re energized!

 This was a circus put on by the Shriner's and this was the only "circus clown" He was passing out donut seeds better know as Cheerios! Some of the Shriner's were dressed as clowns but not too freaky looking.

 So of course their favorite act of the night was also the last act the elephants. This was the longest circus. I had no idea it was 3 hours long! So the circus was over at 10:30 and needless to say the girls were becoming cranky if something wasn't entertaining them! They usually go to bed at 8!

We were on the front row which at first I thought wasn't going to be a very good idea but it worked better for the girls because all of the anaimal acts were right in front of us. I guess we just lucked out and picked the right ring because I think if we were anywhere else they wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as they did. 

If you ask Brigitte what she liked it was all the animals...."the elephants, horsey, and tigers!"