The Circus came to town!

My Mom and I took the kids to see the circus today.  We weren't sure what to expect, but it turned out to be a well put together show.  I was a little nervous that it would be under the traditional circus tent but fortunately as you can see it was not.  I had a 'traumatizing' event in the past at a circus under the big top with some elephants RUNNING by us way too close.  Between that and the scary clowns, I had just about written off ever attending a circus again.  This was much better! 

By the end of the night, we really were starting to think that Ella's future plans would include running away with the circus.  At intermission they offered pony rides and elephant rides.  She of course wanted to ride the pony's, which we did.  We then walked over to check out riding an elephant and it would have cost us $24 for the 3 of us to ride (a parent had to go with).  After the tickets in, cotton candy, popcorn, soda, pony rides--that wasn't in the budget!  Well, you don't tell Ella no when she wants to ride an animal.  We heard about it the whole second half of the show and up until she went to bed this evening.  So I won't be surprised if one day she up and joins the circus! 

Check out some more of our photos from the circus here...Circus Photos