As often happens in our daily jobs/lives, what was originally planned did not end up actually happening other than one 1.5 hour flight in the 172. My evening trip to Lafayette was postponed until tomorrow, so after our last flights of the day, Steve and I picked Kaylee up from school then headed to the circus. :)
This was a small circus that was held in the...well, they used to call it the Johanning Center, I can't think of the name of it now. Anyway, it's a big civic center building, and inside they had set up these highly unsafe wooden board bench seats around a giant metal ball and a ring. They sold peanuts and popcorn and cotton candy and glowy light things and pony rides and elephant rides and balloons and clown noses and all sorts of circus gizmos. The elephant rides were $5, and since I can't say I know too many people who have ever sat on an elephant, we got Kaylee a ride. She said it was bony and felt like she was going to fall off, and was really cool. I was just looking at those poor elephants and hoping they were well-treated. Oh, and speaking of well-treated, they were also selling whips to the audience. I thought that was a fantastic idea-sell whips to a bunch of sugared-up hyper young children all in one small space and see what happens. ;) Actually, I thought about buying one of those myself for child and small cat control. ;)
The circus may have been small, but it was well done. (Photos are up on Kaylee's site). There were several performers who had multiple acts, and there was at least one family involved. They had three lions and a tiger that did a show to start things off, they had jugglers who did flaming batons and balls and rings and all manner of things, they had acrobats, a clown named Pinky, camels, a dog routine (one puppy piddled in the middle of the floor which the kids found more funny than anything), a hula-hoop girl who had about a dozen of them going, an elephant routine, and the motorcycle act. It started off with one guy on a dirt bike going into this metal ball cage and riding around. Then two of them. Then three of them zipping around in there upside down, doing loops, holding hands, and then they put a girl in there, standing in the bottom of the ball while the three motorcycles whipped around sideways over her head. She had no safety protection at all, either, and you're half closing one eye and hoping a motorcycle doesn't miss or fall on her. I leaned over to Steve and said "Even
I think that's kind of crazy." You couldn't get me to stand in there and just trust nobody to ever make a mistake. And neither would I be comfortable riding around on a motorcycle and hoping I'm not the one to goof up and kill somebody underneath me. Nope. Anyway, the circus lasted about two hours altogether, and they did a really nice job with it. Good entertainers, good quality performers for a little circus in a building in Kokomo. I enjoyed watching Kaylee staring at the acts with her mouth and fingers all sticky from cotton candy, clapping when the aerial act started spinning in the air by her long hair with flaming sticks in her hands.
It was just a fun thing to get to do as a surprise when you get out of school one cold Spring day for no apparent reason other than...the circus is in town!
This was a small circus that was held in the...well, they used to call it the Johanning Center, I can't think of the name of it now. Anyway, it's a big civic center building, and inside they had set up these highly unsafe wooden board bench seats around a giant metal ball and a ring. They sold peanuts and popcorn and cotton candy and glowy light things and pony rides and elephant rides and balloons and clown noses and all sorts of circus gizmos. The elephant rides were $5, and since I can't say I know too many people who have ever sat on an elephant, we got Kaylee a ride. She said it was bony and felt like she was going to fall off, and was really cool. I was just looking at those poor elephants and hoping they were well-treated. Oh, and speaking of well-treated, they were also selling whips to the audience. I thought that was a fantastic idea-sell whips to a bunch of sugared-up hyper young children all in one small space and see what happens. ;) Actually, I thought about buying one of those myself for child and small cat control. ;)
The circus may have been small, but it was well done. (Photos are up on Kaylee's site). There were several performers who had multiple acts, and there was at least one family involved. They had three lions and a tiger that did a show to start things off, they had jugglers who did flaming batons and balls and rings and all manner of things, they had acrobats, a clown named Pinky, camels, a dog routine (one puppy piddled in the middle of the floor which the kids found more funny than anything), a hula-hoop girl who had about a dozen of them going, an elephant routine, and the motorcycle act. It started off with one guy on a dirt bike going into this metal ball cage and riding around. Then two of them. Then three of them zipping around in there upside down, doing loops, holding hands, and then they put a girl in there, standing in the bottom of the ball while the three motorcycles whipped around sideways over her head. She had no safety protection at all, either, and you're half closing one eye and hoping a motorcycle doesn't miss or fall on her. I leaned over to Steve and said "Even
I think that's kind of crazy." You couldn't get me to stand in there and just trust nobody to ever make a mistake. And neither would I be comfortable riding around on a motorcycle and hoping I'm not the one to goof up and kill somebody underneath me. Nope. Anyway, the circus lasted about two hours altogether, and they did a really nice job with it. Good entertainers, good quality performers for a little circus in a building in Kokomo. I enjoyed watching Kaylee staring at the acts with her mouth and fingers all sticky from cotton candy, clapping when the aerial act started spinning in the air by her long hair with flaming sticks in her hands.
It was just a fun thing to get to do as a surprise when you get out of school one cold Spring day for no apparent reason other than...the circus is in town!
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