A Saturday at the Circus

*Every Grown-up's Dream*

Saturday started out with a BANG……literally. We spent the morning letting Trevor hit us in the head with the door to his playhouse and pretending like it was knocking us out. Like his mother, he thinks things like seeing people get hurt is funny. Apparently that is something embedded in the genes. The things you’ll do to entertain a toddler.

What do you do on a Saturday afternoon when the temperature outside is 0 degrees? Well, today’s choices were the Model Train Show or the Zor Shrine Circus. Tough choice, but we went with the circus. We picked up Trevor’s girlfriend Ariel and her mom Krista and off we went.

Now I haven’t been to the circus since being a kid myself. Was this a particularly bad circus or has the circus always been this bad? The kids enjoyed themselves for the most part.

They really enjoyed their first ever cotton candy.

Can you see the excitement in Krista’s eyes? We had to drag her out of the circus kicking and screaming…..I think she was considering joining. How would I have explained that to her husband when he returned from China?

We decided after seeing the worst ever clowns perform for the 4th time, it was time to go.

We left and headed for the Red Robin STARVING. Well, Krista and I were starving; we came to find out that Jeff snuck off to have a hot dog without us at the circus. We’re not at all bitter about it…..
Trevor dined on a meal of milk and ketchup. I always hear people complain about kids screaming in restaurants and ruining their meal. While ketchup and milk is not the healthiest dinner, it kept him quiet and happy. That seems to be what really matters when dining out with a toddler.