The Greatest Show on Earth...

After a few glitches with the new computer, I think we are back up and running again.  So I will attempt to blow off a thin layer of dust from these pictures and let you know what we've been up to this past week or so.

As many of you know, our family can't turn down a good circus.  So when we heard that Barnum and Bailey was going to be in town with their circus, and Groupon made it super affordable to go, we couldn't resist!

We had fabulous seats overlooking the one-ringed circus. 

The girls had their favorite acts.... Sullivan liked the clowns and elephants!

Quinn liked the acrobats that started off the show.  Several ladies started off in these clear globe-like objects (in the middle of the picture).  The globes split open as they did their acrobatic feats.  I have to say, it was pretty amazing!

We convinced the girls to forego on circus souvenirs this time around, as they were super expensive and really nothing spectacular.  They asked for a snow cone, which seemed like a fair compromise, until you learn that a snow cone nearly costs as much as a steak dinner!

Regardless, the snow cones were pretty yummy! 

I'd never been to a circus that had trained pigs and kangaroos.  Pretty funny to watch!

And of course they had the usual tigers and lions and motorcycles in a cage.  But I had never seen at the most during the show - eight, yes eight, motorcycles in a cage at a time. How do they do that, I wonder?!

At the end of the circus, there were three people who gave it two thumbs up and one that gave it two thumbs down.  I won't say who that Grinch was, but I am guessing that you can figure that out!!