Circus, Circus

So today was not a work day, but Daddy was there anyway, desperately trying to head things off at the pass. A "perfect storm" of work is coming, and presently workplace forecasters are classifying it as a category five.

Still, Daddy and Mommy made time to go to the circus tonight with Madison. She absolutely had the greatest time there. She told us she loved the elephants the most, and she really enjoyed sitting with Hannah and Nana. The whole family was there, taking up a large part of a row, watching Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey's new circus theme, "Fully Charged." It was actually a pretty clever theme, and the show - although not as good as last year's - was well worth the visit.

There were certainly highlights - we mentioned the elephants. But there was a pretty odd moment where they set up this huge crossbow and launched a guy - on fire and sixty-five miles per hour - all the way across the arena onto a huge inflatable thing. This makes me pause to ask a deep question: who comes up with this stuff?

At what point in your life do you stop and think, "Say, I know what I'm going to do for a living! I'm going to rest my body on top of a crossbow approximately the size of a school bus. Then I'm going to get lit on fire and launch myself a couple hundred feet, going sixty-five miles per hour until I hit something!"

Seriously, that's what this guy tells other people when they ask, "What do you do for a living?" And these other people have to use their most dejected voices when they reply, "I'm an accountant." Or something like that.

Anyway, the show was great. This was an oddball highlight, but some of the more traditional favorites were excellent, particularly the tight wire routine and the strong men. All the other acts were swell too - Madison had a wonderful time with the whole family. We all did, actually!