LADIES & GENTLEMEN...THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (and I have a migraine)

The circus came to town! Mom and Dad got us all tickets for my birthday...so off we went today!
Katie & Jessica talked about how they were going to see the elephants all week. And let me tell ya...the elephants didn't disappoint! They were amazing.
I think the tigers were most reflective of how my head started feeling during the circus. A dull roar that seemed like it could spring out of control at any moment. The actual tigers were great, just grumpy enough and uncooperative enough to keep the circus goers on our toes.

Jessica loved the guy riding a motorcycle from a high wire. With a scantedly clad lady hanging from beneath the wire! With FLAMES on their costumes!

Katie loved the clows. Me and clowns? No so much.

Then we went out for Greek food for lunch.

The girls had been told they would go to the circus and have an ice cream. But an ice cream at the circus costs $9. And popcorn was $7. A coke was $5. A snow cone in a keepsake cup was $15. So we went to cold stone AFTER the circus. Think they minded?

Then, like music to my ears, Grammie and Papa asked the girls to come back to their house to hang out. By this point my head was pounding. There is some sort of circuit in my brain that has a synapses that misfires when too many lights, sounds, whistles, people and dark are combined all at once like at the circus, or casinos, or Dave and Busters or dance clubs, or buffets. My whole system just sort of shuts down and I want to curl into a ball in the corner until it stops. That's what happened today. I think it happened a little to Jessica too. It's just like it's too much all at once. It was SUPER fun to get to go to the circus and I highly recommend you go if it comes to your town. Unless you have a weird brain, firing, synapses thing. Then, go to talent night at the senior center. That's more my speed.