Three Rings of Boredom

I often get free tickets to events in town through work, just a perk of slaving away at a TV station I guess. So in the past couple of years we've taken Ellie to Care Bears Live, Elmo Live, stuff like that. But this past weekend, the Circus was in town. I don't know the last time I'd been to a circus, and Ellie likes animals and stuff, so I thought, "We're not paying for it, we might as well just go."

(That's us before we headed out)

Carrie stayed home with the boys, and Daddy and Ellie had a date night. But after about 30 minutes at the circus, I knew we wouldn't be staying very long. It started with the tigers and a big lion. She liked that for the most part. It was a little slow, but they jumped through a ring of fire, so that was cool. There was a huge elephant that did all sorts of tricks. She liked that, but otherwise the show was a bit lame.

It didn't so much hold her attention, but overall we had a good time. We got one of those glow in the dark sparkle toys (i.e. Daddy's a sucker) and had pop and popcorn and made some memories.

At the intermission Ellie says, "Daddy, I don't really want to be here anymore..." So I said, "Wanna go get some ice cream instead?" Her answer was pretty obvious.

So we headed to Dairy Queen to finish off the evening. We had a good time and some good stories to tell Mommy when we got home. I think she had fun. At least (as you can see) she liked the pop, and besides the refreshments (and the stupid $4 sparkle toy) it was free. And we learned that we can probably leave the free tickets for somebody else next year!