Circus Day!

We've been looking forward to this day since we saw the billboards going up. I guess this same circus has come to our town before but we have always missed it. In the morning we got to go over and watch them set up. The kids enjoyed petting the goats and seeing one very ugly pigmy hippo, some camels, horses and of course, the elephants.




The pictures of the actual circus didn't come out very good, not that I expected them to, but there are a few that I would like to share.
This kid was so amazing! See that box behind him? Yup, he crawled right in it and shut the lid. It was really interesting to see how young some of the performers are.




There was so much going on it was hard to know what ring to watch. These cute little ponies were dancing around in front of us, while poodles were performing in the center ring and even more horses doing amazing things in the third ring.


But as fascinating as these acts were, my attention was drawn to the cable that came loose when someone tripped over it. This cable was holding up the motorcycle high wire act! Men came running from everywhere to grab the cable and hook it up to the truck right outside the tent. I'm not so sure I'd want to be the one to climb up on that motorcycle!