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August 24, 2003
The Circus That Wasn't
Due to a miscommunication, we didn't pick Bubs up until late yesterday afternoon. So we decided to take in the county fair and postpone taking him to the advertised accompanying circus until today. Bubs was all excited, doing his dance of happiness & high-fiving me all the way across the parking area and through the front gate. We were supposed to meet my daughter there, so we were hanging around inside the gate, waiting for her and taking in the sights.
A fifth-rate acrobat act attracted our attention as we waiting....I've done better aerial stunts on a grapevine when I was a kid....and there was an adjacent pony ride. It slowly dawned on us as we watched. This was the "circus" that had been hyped in all the fair ads.
Ahem. We were, shall we say, underwhelmed. At least there weren't any clowns.
But my daughter & her date finally arrived and we did the fair with style....two rides on the big carousel, a ride down the tall superslide with his favorite aunt, a couple of games of skee ball, the purchase of a cowboy hat complete with a star and a pony ride. He desperately wanted to ride the "choo-choo", but you must be at least this tall to ride....and he was a few inches shy. He was also a bit too little to ride the huge gondola-type Ferris wheel, for which we were all grateful. He had a blast, kept us all in stitches with his antics....and we were all glad Mike & I had invested $5 in a child's safety harness with leash. He was trying to run six ways at once.
He started yawning after a couple of hours, so we made our way back to the gate....he wasn't ready to leave of course, but we finally convinced him that it was time to go home and see Sollie. As we walked out of the gate, he raised his tired little head off my shoulder and waved at all the rides. "Bye-bye" he said sadly.
Can't wait til next year.
Posted by Rita at August 24, 2003 06:36 AM
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I am sooooo glad it was a clown-free zone, lest a perfectly wonderful little boy be traumatized by some grotesque looking creature acting erratically.
Posted by: Jim - Parkway Rest Stop at August 24, 2003 06:19 PM
There were a few of those too (this is NWArkansas after all)...but at least they weren't clowns. He thought we were going back tonight, and when he figured out we were taking him home instead, the bottom lip came out....no fit or anything, he just sat there with his head down and his bottom lip stuck out for a long time. It was so cute...didn't work, but it was cute.
; )
Posted by: Rita at August 24, 2003 08:21 PM
I was a bottom-lipper too. Must be a great kid.
Posted by: Jim - Parkway Rest Stop at August 25, 2003 08:37 PM
I love those pony rides with the hat...I have pics of Spense in the getup on the pony.
Give that kid a hug for me, would ya?
Posted by: Da Goddess at August 26, 2003 03:21 AM