It's not the big top, not a 3-ring circus, but it was fun...
It was held in the gym of the Saranac Lake High School, and travels all over the North Country...Ben and I knew a bunch of the kids and grownups in attendance, and some of them site on the floor in front of the ring...
The show opened with a unicycle act involving a couple, and eventually their 6 year old son...they slalomed, juggled, and did acrobatics on their unicycles...
Another great act was the hula-hoop woman, she could (and did) make hula-hoops gyrate on every part of her body...she ended up adding hula-hoops to her torso until she was working 21 of them...
We were in the front row, about 20 feet from the ring...Ben and the rest of the audience was enthralled by the action so close...I think that this is what the circus used to be...a small group of performers of various abilities that worked bringing up close and personal entertainment to small groups of people in a different town every night...
At the intermission, kids were invited to pose with...wait for it...SPIDERMAN!!!
Ben was so excited that he almost burst while we were waiting in line...after the picture, we walked around for the rest of the intermission, talking to people we knew, and alternating between showing off Ben's picture and admiring (almost identical) pictures of other kids posing with Spiderman...
The first act after the intermission was an aerialist, or trapeze-lady...she did some cooled turns and acrobatics, made cooler by the fact that she was working without a net or pads beneath her...
The final act of the night was a trick rider on a BMX bike...he did all sorts of neat tricks...again, right in front of us...near enough that we could hear him huffing with exertion when he did some of the tricks...
We had a fun time at the circus, and got Ben to bed after 9pm, after a long day...I'm hoping that he'll sleep in a bit tomorrow...
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