Circus Saturday

I bought tickets to the Ararat Circus about 6 weeks ago and the kids have been super excited about it ever since.  Colin has had a countdown to "circus Saturday" for a while.

We went to the 10 am show and we got there a little over an hour early because we heard they had lots of fun things to do before the show started.

Here we are before going into Municipal auditorium.  Brian went to park the car, it was such a lovely day out the kids didn't even really need their jackets!

 We got suckered into buying a program because you could get the clowns to sign by their pictures...

 Pretty much a waste of $2, but we did get a chance to win a bike...

of course we didn't win...

They had elephant rides before the show started and in the intermission.

We decided it was totally worth the $10 for the kids to ride on an elephant.  I mean, come on, who can say they've riden on an elephant?!

 We thought the kids would chicken out, so we watched from afar for a bit, then promised them cotton candy if they followed through.  

 They had a great time and had no fears getting up there.

 And as promised...enjoying their cotton candy

 We had so much fun at the circus!

Colin's favorite part was the tigers and Maggie liked the motorcycle riders in the circular cage (however, she didn't get to see them because we had an emergency bathroom break!).  They had acrobats and camels and random filler-time stuff like clowns and singing.  

We left at intermission.. it had been a long morning and the kids really needed a rest!

Here's a video of the kids on the elephant

And lastly...

Brian finished staining the deck this week.  Looks great!

Now we can get our grills and furniture back up there for the winter.