Circus

In celebration of Ellery's birthday we decided to take the kids to the circus. The smell is the same as I remember as a kid, but Rob and I looked at each other and said it seems to have lost the magical luster we remember as kids. The magical luster was for sure their for my children, they both loved the elephants and shed tears when the lady flew out of the loud cannon. Also, the winkie lights have progressed with time. Mason picked out a blue lighted sword like figure while I picked out an elephant head winkie blinkie light for Ellery. I think they brought just as much joy to me as it did for my kids. Mason also loved giving high five to a clown who had a squeaker in his glove. Every time he hit his hand it would squeak and the clown told him it was a mouse and he was hooked. He was also curious to see the mouse, but we had no such luck at sighting the mouse. Ellery didn't cry, but she wasn't going to give any high 5's out.
I wanted to be a trapeze artist as a child and although I don't want to do it for a living now, I still have the urge to try it. Someday I am going to take a trapeze class and fly through the air.
At last, Rob and I thought they were really mean to the tigers. we never noticed as a child that people were standing outside of the cages with big sticks poking the tigers to make them jump down and do their tricks. We want to believe this didn't happen when we were children, and I hope our children didn't notice it either.