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{CIRCUS... PART 2}

Where were we?  Ohhh, yes...

Grandpa, grandpa, wait. Wait, what did Fezzik mean
"He's dead"? I mean, he didn't mean dead. Westley's
only faking, right?Grandfather:You want me to read this or not?Grandson: Who gets Humperdinck?Grandfather:I don't understand.Grandson: Who kills Prince Humperdinck? At the end. Somebody's
got to do it. Is it Inigo, who?Grandfather:Nobody. Nobody kills him. He lives.

Grandson: You mean he wins? Jesus, Grandpa, what did you read
me this thing for?

Grandfather:You know, you've been very sick and you're taking
this story very seriously. I think we better stop
now.

Grandson: No, I'm okay. I'm okay. Sit down. I'm all right.

Grandfather: Okay. All right. Now let's see, where were we. Ohhh,
yes. In the Pit of Despair.

Ooops.  Wrong story.

Ohhhh, yes... That's right... Sorry... The clowns....

So, yes those clowns.  They ran around doing silly things.  It was mostly a distraction while the next act setup.  I'm actually convinced that the clowns were really mostly only there as a distraction to setup between stunts and acts and what not... But you know what?

It worked.

Next up?  Acrobatic Stewardesses.  So, they kept with the whole, in-flight theme the whole time.  The stewardess ladies climbed up ropes and high into the air.  They dangled and twisted and turned and twirled and swirled all coordinated to some dance music.

Both of them were in sync with one another and the music.  That went on for quite a while.  I actually felt as though it went on a little too long.  Maybe a minute less would have been better just because the ooooo and ahhhhh effect kind of started to wear off.

It's strange how anything exciting at first... Can kind of get... Boring.

Isn't that weird?  I mean it could be SOOOOO over the top amazing... And then... All of a sudden you find yourself checking your phone.  There are people hanging by a pinky toe 100 feet in the air!  And you're just like... Hmmm... Oh look.  Someone liked my Instagram photo!

Just me?  No?  Maybe?

Well next up was a strange little comedy bit that was obviously meant for the kids.  This one comic relief guy, he was... Not really a clown.  He kind of mimicked the host/circus director guy.  I don't know what a... Ring leader.  There you go.  That's it!  See, I knew I'd think of it.

Well the ring leader had a comic relief shadow guy.  His name was the Johnny Rocket.  He had a spiked mohawk kind of thing happening.  Well this Johnny Rocket dude brought out a trombone and blasted it behind the ring leader as he was talking.

The ring leader jumped and Johnny snickered.  Then he said he wanted to play his trombone.  The ringleader and him went back and forth saying that no one wanted to hear him play his trombone.  Finally he convinced the ring leader to let him play.

As this whole thing was happening a beat up old two truck from that pixar movie "Cars" was slowly driving up behind Johnny Rocket.

Then as Johnny went to play a note on his trombone the car honked behind him.

He then said... "There's an echo!"

And everyone laughed.  Then ring leader started to get the crowd to chant... "Turn around!"  Johnny didn't get it at first.  He just played the trombone not again, and truck honk again behind him.

Finally he turned around surprised.  He went over to the truck but water squirted out of the front of the truck at him.

They then began to tussle.  The car spit fire and smoke at him.  There were various special effects.  Then somehow he slipped and was hooked by his suspenders on the tow trucks back hook.  He was lifted in the air before being brought down again.

This concluded the first act...

There was an intermission of sorts.  The intermission was where they moved all the circus equipment out of the performance floor and brought in games/rides/attractions for the kids.  This included:

An elephant ride.

Photos with a snake, or alligator, both were alive.

A moon bounce.

A super slide.

Face painting.

They were also selling toys and such...

I decided to go use wander.  I found the food venders.  I almost got a churro... because churros are awesome.  Then I almost got funnel cake... because funnel cake is awesome.  Then I almost got some other food items.

I decided on deep fried Oreos.  I've never had them.  They were good.

As the saying goes... Good, just not good for you.

After that they had prizes and 50/50 and someone won a bike.

They started the "second act" following that.  I say that in quotes because the second act was just three more things that went super quick.

First up they had... Okay, so I GUESS this is kind of impressive.  They had two guys balancing on a plank that sat on top of a rolling cylinder.  As they balanced back and forth on that they juggled various things... THEN they juggled stuff, tennis rackets, tennis balls, bowling pins.... and then sticks ON FIRE.

That's definitely not an item on my resume for sure.

There was a quick break with more clowns and such...

Then came the circus elephant.  He did lots of different tricks.  Sitting down.  Standing up.  Putting a foot out.  And a leg out.  And doing the hokey pokey.  Okay maybe not the hokey pokey but...  He almost kind of danced.  A girl rode on top of him.

Finally it was time for the human cannonball!

A guy got inside the giant cannon and they counted down.  Then he shot out of the cannon accompanied by a loud boom.... which I'm guessing was for dramatic effect.  I mean... I'm not sure exactly how the thing REALLY shoots him out of there, but I can't imagine REAL gunpowder is used.  It's probably some sort of spring loaded something or another.  I'm actually curious to know how that thing actually shoots him out and into the air.

Well, he sailed through the air across the field and landed on a giant inflatable bag... thing.  They use them in the movies whenever you watch the behind the scenes when someone is jumping off a building.  It deflates as you fall into it.

And that concluded the show.  I had fun.  They introduced the circus performers one at a time and the performers bowed.  Then everyone headed for the exit.

So... This concludes the story of my day at the circus!  I guess it wasn't a day really... It was a couple hours.  But still.  It was a good day.

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