We took the kids to the Shriner's Circus today. Miguel had gotten a couple of those free admission tickets for the kids so we went. He took today off because of a trip he has to make tomorrow for an ACTS retreat so he picked Lij up from his dad's last night so that we could all go. I was so happy to see Lij and so glad that I got an extra night with him! I miss him so much when he's gone. Last night after Mikey fell asleep, I let him stay up playing video games while I slept on one of the couches. He ended up falling asleep in the big couch across from me and I remember waking up in the middle of the night and looking over at him and just feeling so happy...so happy that he was home and so close by and safe...just a good, warm, fuzzy feeling. Anyway, we saw the 4:30 show. We got there a bit early and they weren't letting people in...don't know why...so we had to wait outside in the HOT sun for about 30 minutes. The kids didn't seem to mind though. And we had gotten them some of those little, red Shriner hats so their heads were a little protected! BTW, there were clowns walking around the whole time taking pics with the kids and signing their little hats...so cute!! We got some really good seats right up front. I haven't been to the circus since I was VERY little so I have no idea how many people go to these things or maybe it was just because it was still pretty early in the day, but there weren't too many people there. Before the circus...they had all kinds of fun things set up for the kids, face painting (really not FACE painting because they were doing it on the kids' arms), pony rides, elephant rides, moon bounces. The elephant rides were $10 and the pony rides were $7....so pricey!! Mikey rode a pony and both Lij and Mikey were going to ride the elephant, but Mikey backed out at the last minute. He sat there on the elephant the whole time they were loading other kids on, but as soon as it was going to move, he decided he wanted off!! So Lij rode alone. Both Lij and Mikey got "painted" too...Lij got a cool, glittery dragon and Mikey got a turtle. The circus itself was so cool. They had acrobats, and a tiger tamer guy, guys riding bikes inside that big steel circle thing (yes, that's what it's called!LOL), gymnasts, an elephant show...so many things..oh and guy got shot out of a cannon! THAT was SOOOO cool!!! It was a blast and the kids both had such a good time. I didn't get many pics at the circus and the ones I took didn't come out very well because it was really dark in there and I had to use the night setting which flashes three times and the kids would move before the third flash went off. I also got some cute pics of us together in the backyard while Miguel was cleaning up the truck before we left. Of course, Mikey is blurred out or cut off from some of the pics because he just cannot sit still long enough! LOL TFL :)
