One of my favorite childhood memories was coming to Raleigh with my parents for the circus. When I saw it was coming to Raleigh, I knew we had to go. Plus, I had to justify a previously purchased smocked outfit by finding an appropriate event to wear it to!!
We went with Will and Avery's friend
Garrison and his family, just to ensure that was lots of toddler passing amongst laps!!
Will thought everything was simply wonderful. He loved the animals and the flying trapeze. But he especially loved the motorcycles. He sat virtually motionless for their entire performance.
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| a cage of cycles |
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| intently watching the motorcycles |
He was learning about the circus in school the next week so we told him he could pick out something from the vendors to take for show and share. Can you guess what it was?
Avery loved the elephants but didn't like that she didn't weigh enough to keep her seat from folding up on her. It was a tag team effort between me, the man sitting beside her and the lady sitting behind her to keep her from getting eaten by the non-Wolfpack red folding chair! She even threw such a fit over it at one point that we had to take her out to the concourse.
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| Theodore came with us |
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| The Circus Train |
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| Tiger Time |
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| The Elephant is picking up a basket and a dog |
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| Not sure why she looks so terrified and/or sad |
During intermission, the announcer was talking about upcoming events at the arena, one of which is Monster Jam. Little does Will know, but he will be there in a few weeks! But if you ask him what his favorite part of the circus was, he will tell you it was when they were talking about monster trucks.
That was fun...thanks for taking me along.
ReplyDeleteEvery child needs to go to the Circus and Disney on Ice!!!!!!
Love Cecilia