The Greatest Show on Earth....
Family trip to the Circus!

While driving around the other day we noticed a special looking train stopped in a siding. The Circus train...whoo hooo! The Circus is in town, I don't think the boys have ever been! So that night I went home and booked tickets.

The next day over our Sunday morn breakfast at IHOP we told the boys that we are going to the circus tomorrow! We then had to explain what we would see as Thomas didn't really know what the circus is, but Harry was so excited! We even got a "Oh yeah! Oh yeah!" that's when you know he is truly excited.

We arrived an hour and a half early to the Circus, we wanted to make the most of "meeting the animals" and the "Clown School" which was included in the whole experience.

I had never been so close to Elephants before, especially Elephants that only had a small piece of string as a fence...a little nerve raking! We also got to see the tigers (thank goodness they were behind more than a string fence and in nice strong cages) there were also Zebra's, ponies and dancing dogs. The kids loved meeting the animals.

Then it was time to go in, Clown School here we come! I was a little hesitant to say the least, I have quite the clown phobia but these clowns were great! more like hobo's and not so much the typical clown looking clowns, ie scary clowns. Harry had an absolute ball watching the clown act, I thought he would explode with laughter at one point. We got to see Elephants paint with their trunks and poodles dance. The dog act wanted some crowd participation and Thomas was selected, this was truly the highlight of the show, watching Thomas play dog trainer with the hoop for them to jump through....see video! Priceless!!!

We then took our seats and the lights went dim, bang bang with some fireworks and the show was all go! See the pics.....

All in all we had a good time, the kids however where over it faster than we thought so we really had to keep them interested in what was happening. I think my fav's were the dare devil acts, like being shot from a canon and the gravity hoops. The 10+ elephants all sitting in a row and 12x tigers jumping through hoops were amazing too!

They had quite a few old school circus magic acts, like cutting a person in half, shooting someone from a canon, making an elephant vanish in thin air, turning a clown into a tiger and a few other magic tricks...My favorite Harry quote of the day "Wow! Magic really is real!" Don't you love seeing the Circus with kids!

This was quite unlike any Circus I had been too before, sure beats The Wringling Bros Circus back home.