How sweet it is to be loved by you!: The Greatest Show on Earth!

While planning my 2 week vacation from work I knew I wanted to keep the weeks fun and full of adventure. I immediately thought of taking Jilly to the beach, park, Zoo, Aquarium, etc. Then another idea hit me. The circus!!! Since Jilly's kinda scared of huge animals at the moment I didn't want to take her anywhere that she'd have to be super close to them, but this kid loves a good entertaining show so what better place then the circus, right?? I looked up online when they'd be in town and it just so happened the Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Circus was in Anaheim in early August! We had a couple dates to choose from but I immediately went to August 6th because Jilly will be 18 months old so it was her half birthday! I'm never one to celebrate half birthdays but the dates fit why not right??

The circus was, well a circus! In all aspects. I don't remember the last time I went to the Honda Center but I do NOT remember the seats being THAT tiny. It was insane. INSANE. I consider myself to be a fairly small person and I barely even fit comfortably in the chairs. Eddie, Grace, Haley, Drew, Jessica, Jake, Jill and I squeezed into our row of seats and started to get situated. Within 5 minutes of sitting down Jake moved his elbow just right and knocked his large soda out of the cup holder and onto the stairs filled with people trying to take their seats. Oh no! He contained his anger just enough to sop up what he could then go to the bathroom to wash off his now sticky feet. Meanwhile I waited for the cleaning crew to come on by and help us with the mess. Little did I know that a slope was pooling the soda onto MY feet and the bottom of Jilly's diaper bag. The cleaning lady shows up but is quickly called to the seats behind us where someone ELSE drop their soda, spilling it all over. This second soda continued to run down the seats under Haley and Eddies feet and onto THEIR diaper bag. Seriously, it was a mess. But there was nothing we could do. Accidents happen and as parents were pretty used to being sticky all the time anyways!!

I'm pretty thankful this all happened before the show even started because I would have been upset if I or Jilly missed anything good! But once the lights went down and the stage lights up went it was pretty cool! The circus always has to much going on that it was hard to pay attention to just one thing but that was great for little kids like Jill and Grace! So much to look at and so much to pay attention to and keep them busy! The show lasted a little over 2 hours and Jill definitely got restless towards the end, hopping from my lap to Jakes then back again - over and over again. But we had fun. Pizza, Soda, Cotton Candy, Popcorn, entertaining clowns, tigers, elephants, trapeze artists - that's what the circus is all about!!!

Ringling Bros - Barnum & Bailey Circus!!