The annual Shriner’s circus is becoming something of a tradition with Jessica, and my dear friend Lea Ann and her two small boys, and me. This is the second year that the five of us have gotten together to go to the circus, and we’re already planning next year’s trip!
Highlights of this year’s circus trip included Chinese food for dinner, getting blue cotton candy all over our faces, and drinking snow cones until the boys were too sugared up to sit still.

Some of our favorite acts

… tigers! On high wires! Jumping through burning hoops! Being tiger-y!!

… the rainbow-colored ponies delighted Jessica; they ended their show by making a sort of Maypole tent of gauzy rainbow fabric.

… we both loved the routines the dancers did suspended on giant swaths of sheer fabric.

Grade: A

The circus is always a great show, but this year the prices were astronomical, and we weren’t able to ride the elephants like we all did last year. We wondered if, because we went on a McDonald’s night, they increased prices of the extras to make up for the lowered ticket prices; it prevented us from doing activities during the intermission that the kids would’ve really liked to do, like touch the boa constrictor, bounce in the inflatable castle, and ride the elephants. We’re all excited to see what next year’s circus will bring!