Za Ga Zig Shiners Circus

Well kids, now you can say you you’ve been to a circus! This is a story of how it went. Brevin brought a free ticket to the circus home from school. I went out and purchased two adult tickets and a child ticket for Jaeley for a cost of $30. We get to the circus and Jaeley immediately complains of the smell. Brevin and Jaeley want to go down the inflatable slide, jump in the bounce house, or ride the elephants, all at an extra cost. We say that they have to choose one thing. They choose the bounce house. We go to our seats and sit down, when Jaeley asks if it’s time to go home yet.  Brevin is hungry so Adam heads to the concession stand and is gone for 30 minutes because of the huge line. When he arrives with pop and popcorn, crying ensues because what the kids really wanted was cotton candy. The circus starts and B and J are unimpressed with the acrobats, jugglers, and unicycles. Soon they spot the cotton candy lady and raise their hands for an extended period of time to make sure she sees them. We spend $8 on spun sugar.  The ringmaster does a running commercial for the the cheaply made, light-up toys the peddlers are selling. More crying ensues when we, the mean parents, will not buy a toy that will break by the end of the night. Jaeley develops a tummy ache after eating a whole bag of cotton candy and drinking a Pepsi. Brevin points out all the other kids that are getting a toy. Adam and I point to the tight rope walkers and oooh and ahhh trying in vain to catch their interest. The lights come on for intermission, and we quickly exit the building; telling the children the circus experience has ended. They buy it, and promptly fall asleep in the van on the way home.

Me: “Look! Look at the man on the unicycle catching rings on his head! Isn’t that cool, kids!? Can you believe it!?”

Jaeley: “Is it over yet?”

  

Thank goodness the cotton candy lady found us. Whew.

While diving head first into her cotton candy and becoming covered in stickiness, the man sitting in front of us turned around and said, “Wow, that girl really likes her cotton candy.” Um, yah.

What Adam is thinking: “Shanlyn, I can’t believe you actually went out and bought tickets and drug me to this thing and now you are telling me to smile for a picture.”