circus

J joins the circus from LB on Vimeo.

We may have the award for the best sport at the circus or what I like to call the 'go big or go home' award to J for being picked by the clown guy to join him to dance in the main ring! He came into the audience and the boys frantically pointed at him and before you know it he was up there under all those bright lights ;) This blows out of the water any past performances at Toe Jam Puppet Band as the ahem, bee queen (vintage gold toe jam, I wonder if they still do that?!). The crowd went wild as J went along with it and his biggest fans were so pumped up.

I know it's controversial but this elephant seemed content (and supposedly there have been reforms to the treatment of elephants like this and is it really that different than any animal training or horse back riding?) - so I rationalized and let the boys ride the elephant. We did talk to them a bit about the treatment of animals. They were so sweet and didn't want to squeeze the elephant with their legs as they marched along on the bumpy ride.