Last week we took Claire to see Moira Orfei, which is an Italian circus that tours the country and is in our area for about two months. Because of Claire's interest in animals and because she did so well at the Elmo show in the fall, I really though it'd be a great idea to take her to the circus.
She loved it!
It was a great show and lasted over two hours and amazingly, Claire really paid full attention through all but a few minutes here and there. It was a great show with lots of different types of acts that were all very interesting.
Claire, of course, loved the animals. They had a funny segment with two horses, a very large one (maybe Clydesdale?) and a Shetland Pony. They had lions and tigers, which she adored. There were elephants who did great tricks, including kicking a large "soccer ball" through a goal! At intermission, their was a camel that you could have your picture taken with and there was even a hippo!
During one of the "set change" segments, a bunch of the clowns brought out gigantic balloons (probably six feet in diameter, no joke) and threw them out on the audience which all took turns bouncing them along (think beach balls at a graduation). At one point I was able to lift Claire up and she touched one of the balloons, which was so exciting for her!
Claire's favorite parts were probably the tigers, the balloons, the hippo, the "jumping" (the trampoline segments), and the "swinging" (the trapeze artists). She is still talking about it now, even a week later.
We will definitely have to make this a yearly tradition.
