Zoppe Circus

ON SATURDAY ME AND MEADOW ATTENDED

THE ZOPPE FAMILY CIRCUS.  MOM GAVE US TICKETS 

AFTER I HAD ASKED ABOUT A MYTH-BUSTERS 

SHOW HAPPENING AT CENTENNIAL HALL.

SHE COULDN'T GET ME INTO THAT, BUT SHE 

OFFERED THESE SO WE GLADLY ACCEPTED.

WE HADN'T BEEN TO A SHOW SINCE WATER IS RISING AND 

AS USUAL I HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS UNTIL WE GOT THERE.

WE ENDED UP RUNNING INTO TREVOR, DANE, KYLE,

AND A FRIEND OF KYLES THERE.  IT WAS SO LUCKY!

IT WAS HELD RIGHT BY TREVOR AND DANE'S HOUSE.

THE ZOPPE CIRCUS IS AN OLD FASHIONED ITALIAN

CIRCUS USING THE SAME ENTERTAINMENT THAT

THEY DID IN 1842 WHEN IT FIRST STARTED.

THERE WAS A PRESHOW OF JUGGLING, ETC.

SOUVENIR STAND

MUSTACHED BALLERINAS

THE RINGMASTER IS THE GUY WITH THE ACCORDION.

I THOUGHT HE WAS KIND OF CREEPY, BUT IN A GOOD WAY.

INSIDE THE TENT

CONCESSION STAND

NINO IS THE CLOWN WHO THE DOLLS ARE FASHIONED AFTER.

I MADE A BRACELET OUT OF TREVOR'S COTTON CANDY.

THEN IT GOT ALL STICKY ON ME.  STUPID IDEA!

NINO PULLED THIS KID OUT OF THE AUDIENCE AND 

IT WAS THIS RIDICULOUSLY CUTE SKIT OF HIM TRYING

TO GET HIS HAT FROM THE POLE.  THE KID WAS SO

CUTE.  HE REALLY BOUGHT INTO THE WHOLE THING.

THERE WERE NO ELEPHANTS WHICH I LOVE

BECAUSE THEY ARE MISTREATED.  THIS CIRCUS

HAD HORSES AND PUPPIES!!!

THE PUPPY PART HAD US ALL DYING!!!

THEY DID JUMPING TRICKS AND STUFF.

THEN THEY PUT THIS LITTLE DOG IN A HOT

AIR BALLOON.  I WAS IN JOY TEARS BY THIS POINT.

AND THE PUPPY JUMPED OUT INTO THE GUY'S ARMS!

BUT IT WAS THE POODLES IN LEDERHOSEN THAT

HAS US ALL ENTHRALLED.  ALL OF US HAD LOST OUR 

COOL BY THIS POINT AND WERE LIKE 5 YEAR OLDS

ALL HAPPY AND GIDDY AND SMILES EAR TO EAR.

INTERMISSION

THESE ARE ALL BLURRY BECAUSE THAT HORSE

WAS MOVING!  I COULDN'T GET A GOOD PIC.

AND THEN SHE'D JUMP OVER THESE AND I THOUGHT

FOR SURE WE'D SEE HER GET TRAMPLED WHEN SHE

LOST A HER FOOTING A LITTLE AT ONE POINT.

THE CIRCUS IS RUN BY THE ZOPPE FAMILY AND HAS BEEN

SINCE IT BEGAN IN 1842.  THEY INVOLVED THE KIDS IN 

PERFORMING TOO.  THIS LITTLE KID HAD ME ROLLING!

THIS WOMAN WHO WAS SITTING IN FRONT OF DANE

WAS LAUGHING SO HARD AT EVERYTHING THAT SHE

MADE ME LAUGH EVEN HARDER.  I THINK SHE WAS 

LIKE US, ADULTS SANS CHILDREN.  BUT THE KIDS

WHO WERE THERE SEEMED TO LOVE IT TOO.

AND THEY WERE SO FRIENDLY!  THE CUTE KID KEPT

TAKING HIS HAT OFF HIS HEAD AND THROWING IT.

A LITTLE CLOWN IS BORN!!

MEADOW WAS SO ELATED AFTER THE CIRCUS!

WE ALL WERE!  IT WAS TOO MUCH SILLY FUN!

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT TO EVERYONE!

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