[ the circus is in town! ]

sooooooo... my lovely friend jenn informs me the circus is coming, wanna go? i ask my boys, 2 & 4, & got a very positive response!

lets do it! jenn is very organised & set the whole thing up all i had to do is meet her at her house... perfect.

oscar (4): i LOVE the circus ~ it's round. is it bigger than daddy? a train picks it up & drives it to town. are there going to be lions?

flynn (2): & dinosaurs?

oscar: elephants & horses? ~ mum say yes!

having been bitten a few times now by saying yes to something i definitely thought was going to be somewhere so i tried to be super vague...

oscar: & nincompoops? (oscars new word!)

well now i can say with all certainty that there will absolutely be one or two of them!!

we follow jenn & i keep saying to the boys look out for the big top! we arrive at the sun center... wait a minute, it's indoors??!

we drive in line to park passing protesters & the penny started to drop... i had just thought of the whole adventure through the eyes of my boys & had somehow forgotten about the 'real' stuff... not sure how i did this, but i am very tired ok!!

mmmm... well we are here, we have our tickets & very excited little people ~ if i'm going to get all moral should have done that before involving them.

felt like there should have been protesters for the price of lemonade too!! well the beer was cheaper ~ phewy!! i did make the mistake of having a mouth full of trenton water at it's finest from the water fountain... now that's just wrong!

there were some really cringe worth moments... a very very bendy lady with a large boob job ~ was waiting for one to pop! a stick of a girl in very akward positions with a heavy man balancing on her. but like my husband, mike, pointed ~ the circus is a freak show!

there were tigers having whips cracked at them by a very smiley guy with a super sized ego...

but... i have to say ~ i do feel very guilty for going for the animal side of it & feel i need to use this blog as a confession!! sorry elephnats... i've been too scared to read the flier i was handed outside ~ i saw mike scanning it with tight lips... so it must be really bad. http://www.circuses.com/ringling.asp

why can't they make the circus animal free? there's all that technology

oscar's eyes couldn't open wide enough! that was lovely to see.

& now i have to do the clown song on a regular basis.... you know the one ~ & most of the time it's very appropriate!