Last weekend, Josh & I took Molly & Ella to the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. Nana & Cookie treat us to front row seats for Christmas every year and we look forward to it over the holidays. Ella has been asking about it since Christmas Eve! This year, our tickets were at the end of the arena, directly across from the performers’ entrance. It was such a neat perspective from which to watch the animals and clowns come into the show.
This was a funny age for Ella – she was extremely excited to be there, but she thought it was way too long. I don’t remember her caring about that last year, so I’ll be interested to see how next year goes. We did make the decision never to go in the evening again – it made for a really late night!
Being so close to the action is a lot of fun, the performers are making eye contact with you, waving and smiling and the girls felt like the whole show was just for them.
As always the elephant show was our favorite part! The tigers were very uncooperative this time around and a little too far away for us to see very good. The elephants, however, stayed close to our end of the arena and we could see their tricks and stunts very well.
Ella & Molly brought back clown noses from the pre-show, but they were a little big for them. I had the pleasure of modeling them instead.
The Grand Finale was beautiful!
Although these photos aren’t in focus, they are probably my favorites of the night. You can see just how excited they were to watch the action and how pretty their circus lights looked in the dark. We had a wonderful time and slept all the way home!
