The circus comes to town every year for the Azalea Festival and having a 13m old gave us the perfect excuse to go this year :) When we first arrived we watched people riding on the elephants out front and then headed inside to scope out some decent seats. Randal was getting antsy in our laps so we walked around inside the tent with her and took her over to watch all the older kids taking camel and pony rides. We thought Randal Jean would be a quiet observer of the camel and pony rides like she was of the elephant rides but as soon as she saw those ponies she wanted to go play with them. The child squirmed and squirmed in Matt's arms and when he finally put her down she tried to climb in to the middle of the circus ring with the ponies...not kidding. Since the division between us and the ponies was only a small piece of wood she nearly succeeded in her attempt (yikes!). In true Daddy fashion Matt wanted to appease her ASAP (oh, how daddy's girl always get what she wants) so he paid the $5 for a 30 sec (no lie) pony ride. Randal had a look of complete shock while she was on the pony (probably because they were close to galloping) so we didn't know if she really liked it, but as soon as the ride was over (a whooping 30 sec later...can you tell I think that was ludicrous!) she started to cry. So guess who came to the rescue again? You got it! Daddy! This time Matt paid something ridiculous for a slushy (I think $8). That distracted her enough for us to remove her from the pony situation (thank goodness!). Soon enough the show started and there were tigers, clowns, trapeze artists...you know all the circus stuff :) Randal lasted about an hour in to the show (2 hour show) and she just couldn't take it any more, but that was okay considering before the show even started I had mentioned to Matt that if she made it an hour I would consider the evening a success :)
So all in all our first trip to the circus was a success!
Here are some pics of our trip to the circus :)
The elephants:
Laps around the tent before the show
Her first pony ride!
Randal Jean's world coming to an end....aka the pony ride was over.
Being pacified with a slushy. Check out the reaction to her first bite on the left.
Playing with Daddy as we waiting for the show to start
More circus.....Randal approved of all the acts by giving everyone a BIG round of applause :)
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