[singlepic=27,320,240,,left]The Greatest Show in Australia….ok…almost….not really. I got back from the Silvers Circus this afternoon, and as somewhat entertaining as it was, I really had something completely different in mind. After walking into the big top tent which is more like a small top tent, I realized it wasn’t going to have cats jumping through fire hoops, or any other animals for that matter. The show started with the ring master saying the same thing “Ladies and gentlemen, kids of all ages..yadda yadda yadda.” I was open minded because going to the circus was on my new year’s resolution list, and my imagination runs away in my head to things of grandeur.
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For example, one of the acts was this Hispanic man doing the bouncing juggling balls, started with 3 and ended with a total 6. In between adding a new ball he would yell something, and it sounded like “CUBA!” come to think of it I’m gonna pretend he yelled Cuba, just for the hell of it.
Also one act had this girl that was caught by these caveman type people and then some fake dinosaur came and saved her. The story was she raised this dinosaur from a baby and now it saved her for her to be a princess. Then she started swinging on these red curtains, the story really didn’t make sense.
There was a magic act in between each act, and of course I’d try to figure out how he was doing it. One of the acts I figured out; He basically did the cut a person in half and I figured the person hid to one side, she came out ok, then another person came out (and I then said, oh she was on the other side of the box), THEN another person came out and I was like aight now I want to know how he did it! Also each time the magician would cover something I would say to myself a big cat is gonna come out, with no such luck.
The last act was hulla-hoop Eva Longoria, or at least that’s what she looked like from a far. The end of her set had 2 people throwing hoops over her, as she added over 50 hulla-hoops as she was hooping. It was pretty impressive, but in all the show was mediocre. I think the show would have been better if I could have made fun of it with some friends, so if you do decide to go to the circus get drunk before hand.
One last thing about the show was all the ladies were wearing thong like bottoms. I didn’t understand it since the show is a majority of kids! I’ve realized that Australia doesn’t censor much like in Europe, even in public.
The circus also made me realize once we’re a parent, the shows you go to for your kids! I remember when my parents took me to the zoo, there were all these animals and it seemed like a huge production! This was like a cheap Cirque Du Soleil Show. It at least killed my Saturday afternoon, and one of my new year’s resolutions.