Something Creative
Today we headed for my sister-in-law Anne’s house. She’s busy being a single mom right now as my brother-in-law Pete is off at boot camp. With a 3 1/2 yr old & a 7 month old (both very active boys) she has her hands full. The last couple weeks have been particularly trying as they have all had pink eye, colds & possibly strep throat. Then just as that has all started to clear up the oldest took a flying leap onto his bed, fell & smacked his mouth on the frame. Needless to say there was gushing blood & a trip to the urgent care facility. After all that we decided to make a second trip up this week to give her a hand. I went along so that we could take the boys to the circus while Hubby stayed at the house to fix a broken pipe & some cabinet doors.
We arrived at the arena, parked & decided to take the skyway inside. Mostly because it allowed us the excuse of riding in the elevator which little A loved. We walked in & as we got close to the entrance I could see people standing outside holding signs. As I looked harder I saw that these were protesters. Yep that’s right the animal rights activists were picketing the circus. Now that is not surprising in & of itself…this sort of thing happens all the time. I understand the reasons & I don’t agree with animal cruelty…however I think that waving signs with explicit images of abused animals in front of small children is inappropriate at best.
Finally we get inside, buy our tickets, find seats & get settled in. When the show starts we see a group of girls shimmy into the center ring dressed like rejects from an off strip Vegas show. Yep real live dancing girls….at the circus (See I know it was the circus & not a bad lounge act or strip club ‘cuz there were tigers and elephants). And we didn’t just see these girls once…oh no we were treated to 3 different appearances, including costume changes (each getting a little more revealing) and some spinning around on the ropes high above the floor. It was ok I guess…not too spectacular (unless you were at the circus for T&A which I wasn’t…I could stay home & look in the mirror for that).
It was an ok time. The boys liked it mostly so that was good…we got to see the elephant which was our favorite part. The clowns were creepy & unsettling as always, the motorcycles on highwires was cool too. Not big on the circus—never have been (except for the trapeze & highwire stuff which we didn’t see much) and hope that I’m off the hook for going again for a very long time.
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