The George Carden Circus in Hammond, Indiana
We took the boys to the George Carden Circus at the Hammond Civic Center on the weekend after Thanksgiving. It was a pretty good show for such a small venue (it was literally the size of a high school basketball gymnasium). Aiden had never been to a circus before, and he was captivated. I forgot how much circuses smell like, um, animals. There were lots of animals there.
Aiden and I got to ride an elephant before the show started. There was a number of good circus acts. We saw a lion tamer, and he had a white tiger in his pride. The clown was pretty good. The highlight for me was the motorcycles speeding in the steel sphere. I’ve never seen that up close before. Then again, I’m used to circuses of the Soleil variety.
The boys were very well behaved: Aiden switched often between my lap, Chrissy’s lap, and the bleachers; Gavin cried a bit, but we couldn’t hear him over the various acts, he mostly just took the bottle and looked around. We had a pretty good time, but it leads me to wonder how much better the (much more expensive) Ringling Brothers Circus would be.
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