It’s a Circus related week!
I took the Girls to the circus this weekend. They had fun.. M has been bugging us to go to the circus for 6 months now, and she finally got to go.. She was so happy! H was reading a book the whole way there, and insisted in taking it in with her.. I chided her and said “when are you going to read it?? It’s the CIRCUS for goodness sake!”.
Well. She showed me. We were in line for about 20 minutes waiting, waiting, waiting..Zzzz.
H had no problem. You know what SHE was doing.

A couple neat videos you have to see.. First, the (silly) circus strong man.. I really just don’t know how he does this. Its pretty amazing. Where is his center of gravity? I just don’t know what he is doing inside there. Click here for QuickTime video (about 2.3Mb.. Not too bad.)
And here, for the Grande Finale is spider girl out of a cannon.. Much more exciting in person. The video takes a little of the danger out of it.
Click here for QuickTime video (about 1.6Mb)
In between was the regular circus shlock… All in good fun. I feel lucky to have escaped with a total outlay of 10$.. A water and a snocone for M, and a snocone and a popcorn for H.. And free tickets thanks to the television station..

I said this was a circus related post.. I purchased a giraffe Unicycle on eBay! A deal at $51 the thing is practically new.

Its easier to ride than it looks, but I have to learn how to mount it without climbing up on and holding on to a fence or some such. And, its a higher drop than it looks like when you fall off too! heh.

And finally, for the last Circus related item of the day, My maintainance guy at work, Ed, has a brother in law that has a barn filled with stuff. He told me one day a long time ago..”Hey, he has a popcorn machine in there.. He’s looking to dump it. You want it?” I said “Sure, I’d take a look at it” figuring it was nothing special. But when I got there.. Wow, it was a full blown 12oz Gold Medal “gay 90’s” with the cart!

For free! I have a pretty major clean up job to do, but hey.. It’s cool. Don’t know what I’m going to do with it, but… Well.. It’s cool! Dad would have killed to have this thing 20 years ago.

Posted on 28 March '06 by , under Uncategorized.