Circus! Circus!

Soo on Fri­day morn­ing I packed up my fam­ily and drove HOURS and HOURS just to go to the cir­cus. I know… I am weird. Why would you drive 5 hours just to go to a cir­cus you ask? Well I wanted to sup­port my friend who was host­ing the Tots100 Sum­mer Party (hey did some­one say party?), I wanted to actu­ally GO to the cir­cus and most impor­tantly the cir­cus as at the SEASIDE.  Now you have to under­stand, I love the sea. I was born by the sea. I could see the sea from my win­dow when I was a kid. I skipped school and hung out at the beach which was a 5 minute walk from my Junior High School. My fam­ily comes from a small fish­ing vil­lage on an island on the Atlantic.  The sea is in my blood. I miss it. I miss it more than I miss any­thing (Oh, Ok I admit I miss my fam­ily and friends more).  So I packed up my fam­ily and we headed to the sea. It was fan­tas­tic but more on that later.

The cir­cus! Man, I hadn’t been to the cir­cus in years and years. Seri­ously I think I was 10 years old maybe even younger as I don’t remem­ber my sis­ter or brother being around. So basi­cally I hadn’t been to the cir­cus since the 70’s early 80’s!  Things have changed. No more ele­phants and tigers which is a shame but totally under­stand­able for the poor ani­mals. Still we got to see a amaz­ing horse who did all sorts of tricks. Oh and the bud­gies (those are para­keets for us Amer­i­canos) who can do tricks– who knew?!?!

It was pretty cool. The clown/tumblers were funny and enter­tain­ing but the cra­zi­est most hair­brained thing at the cir­cus? Three men on motor­cy­cles in a metal globe cage thingam­abob going faaaaaaast and then they added a woman into the thingam­abob and went even faster. Crazy fools– good fun though!

We got to the party a bit late and most blog­gers were off eat­ing lunch so I didn’t get to meet many of the other blog­gers there. I really should try harder and not be so shy.  Before the main event in a real hon­est to good­ness big top we had a pre-show work­shop where they showed us some of the insider tricks of the trade. Did you know it takes ages and ages to train a budgie to do a loop de loop?

If like me you haven’t been to the cir­cus in more years than you’d like to admit and you have kids — go! Go now! Zip­pos Cir­cus is tour­ing the UK and if you have a chance to see them you totally should.  Squidge laughed, ooohed and aaaaa­hed the entire time. It’s sim­ple enter­tain­ment of a bygone era but kids are kids and they’ll always love the circus.

This is not a spon­sored post. I paid for my own ticket to the Tots100 Sum­mer Party. All opin­ions are my own.