The Circus is in town, the circus WAS in town

Andy surprised us with tickets to the Circus on Friday. I have never been thus Etta and Gibson also have never been. We headed to lunch at 12:00 for half off sushi and then went over to Gateway mall to kill time before the pre-show and show. At 2:00pm they let all who have tickets walk around the outside animal tents and so we walked around. We saw about 10 different colored tigers. Orange with black stripes and white with silver stripes and mixtures of both colors. Beautiful animals. The bigger tents housed the Zebras, miniature horses and big horses. I liked the Zebras the best they just reminded me of Hatcher. (but then any dumb looking animal reminds me of Hatcher) Elephants where Etta's favorites. She could just stare at them forever.
We then walked into the Energy Solutions arena for the pre-show. We got to go down on the floor and see all of the clowns and animals practicing before the show. We took some pictures and had some of the clowns sign our circus book. We headed up to our seats because it was now close to starting. Etta was getting sleepy.(No nap, not good)
The Circus began with an introduction of animals and clowns. They did a lot of fun acts from human 7 people high stacks, tight rope walking and Horses dancing. Then there was intermission and that pushed Etta over the edge. She was crying and squirming and tired. Once the show started again we watched the Elephants and they had some type of magic about them that put Etta to sleep. Gibson fell asleep in Andy's arms so here we are Andy and I with sleeping children watching the Circus. Right after it ended we jumped up and where at of the parking lot before most people where out of the arena.

Andy likes the Circus better then Disney on Ice. I like Disney on Ice better so maybe that means we will go to both each year. Enjoy the fun pictures.

Etta's favorite Elephant and the oldest one.

The family at the Circus!

Etta would make a great clown.

Maybe not she didn't seem to like the clowns very much.