What comes to mind when you think about the Circus? That is was derived from the Greek word kirkos, meaning circle or ring. Or of poorly treated animals that occasionally get there own back with a classic when circus animals go bad episode.
I think of...clowns and unicycles, a red and white striped big top, lion tamers with a chair and a whip, motorbikes whizzing around in a round cage, teired seating and popcorn.
Obviously before last night I had never been to a circus in all my 37 years. So when my wife suggested it I decided it was high time to see what all the fuss was about.
My wife and I took our kids to the Travelling Weber Bros Circus last night. It was a late night as the circus started at 7:30 pm which is well and truely bedtime for our almost 3 and now 5 year old. But hey the circus is in town!
We started our night of treats with a hearty meal at your local family restaurant, Cobb & Co. I still love turning over the placemats to find an awesome array of puzzles to be filled in with those classic little red pencils. And so begins the age old competition between husband and wife, weilding said pencils as combatants did with weapons of old. But I digress...
Over to riverside we parked the car, donned jackets and made our way to the big top with our almost 3 year old repeating, "I'm so excited, i'm so excited!" Guess what, so was I.
Coughing up $64 we entered the tent to be greeted by, in my opinion, the best side show ever...go on guess. Lined up their heads loll from side to side daring you to pay for the privelege to pop ping pong balls into their mouths. That's right, it's those freaky looking clown heads with their mouths agape luring you to pay $5 for a plastic tiki (at least that's what it was in my day). Sorry kids they don't take eftpos.
We found our seats and waited about 20 mins for the show to start. Now I could go on about each act and the story weaved through the performance but a short blog is a good blog. In a nut shell it was better than I thought it was going to be. Although I didn't enjoy the 'mystical' storyline the performances were complex, skilled and enthusiastic to say the least. It had it all...laughs, excitement, wonder and awe! The kids and their parents loved it...good on ya Weber Bros!
I think of...clowns and unicycles, a red and white striped big top, lion tamers with a chair and a whip, motorbikes whizzing around in a round cage, teired seating and popcorn.
Obviously before last night I had never been to a circus in all my 37 years. So when my wife suggested it I decided it was high time to see what all the fuss was about.
My wife and I took our kids to the Travelling Weber Bros Circus last night. It was a late night as the circus started at 7:30 pm which is well and truely bedtime for our almost 3 and now 5 year old. But hey the circus is in town!
We started our night of treats with a hearty meal at your local family restaurant, Cobb & Co. I still love turning over the placemats to find an awesome array of puzzles to be filled in with those classic little red pencils. And so begins the age old competition between husband and wife, weilding said pencils as combatants did with weapons of old. But I digress...
Over to riverside we parked the car, donned jackets and made our way to the big top with our almost 3 year old repeating, "I'm so excited, i'm so excited!" Guess what, so was I.
Coughing up $64 we entered the tent to be greeted by, in my opinion, the best side show ever...go on guess. Lined up their heads loll from side to side daring you to pay for the privelege to pop ping pong balls into their mouths. That's right, it's those freaky looking clown heads with their mouths agape luring you to pay $5 for a plastic tiki (at least that's what it was in my day). Sorry kids they don't take eftpos.
We found our seats and waited about 20 mins for the show to start. Now I could go on about each act and the story weaved through the performance but a short blog is a good blog. In a nut shell it was better than I thought it was going to be. Although I didn't enjoy the 'mystical' storyline the performances were complex, skilled and enthusiastic to say the least. It had it all...laughs, excitement, wonder and awe! The kids and their parents loved it...good on ya Weber Bros!
Oh man... a coupla years ago, we went to the "whirling bros" thinking it was the "webber bros" - paid 25 bux for what were called "VIP" seats instead of the 15 buck "Ringside" seats thinking we were gonna be treated like loyalty. We get in there, the only difference between the two were we got to sit in the front row, BUT not only did the ringside seats have a better view of everything (coz it was the smallest circus tent ever so they were elevated a bit) but dan and i were the ONLY ones dumb enough to buy the "VIP" seats, that all the empty seats got filled by anyone that wanted them when the show actually started. THEN ringmaster person played heaps of elvis songs and sang karaoke to them and didnt know all the lyrics, so hed sing a line and a minute later hed add a word here and there on the bits he knew... THEN he proceeded to tell everyone of how he got divorced and got remarried and that the sallies helped him put up the tent... THEN the juggler kept dropping his batton things THEN the remission was too long and there was nothing to do coz it was raining outside and like u mentioned nothing had eftpos so we couldnt even get a drink. THEN he told us he had monkeys but he got a fine so they wouldnt be able to make an appearance. All in all... 10 outta 10.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a cool experience... and who won out of you two with the puzzle mats?
ReplyDeleteHaha Dr Lizzle, what a funny story, in a sad kind of way. We had a huge tent pole in front of us...all good though.
ReplyDeletePaisley, I would have to concede to a 50/50 win lose ratio, because it would vary depending on who you talked too :)