Prior to the actual show, the clown troupe came out and played a funny game of musical chairs. Peyton laughed when the clowns would pull a chair out from under another clown and that clown would fall on the floor.
Peyton was very focused on the show. He spent some time on both of our laps and some time in his own seat.
The show began with a big opening number. A highlight of that number (for Peyton, at least) was an elephant.
This is the ring master/magician. He did several magic tricks throughout the show, including making an elephant disappear and turning a man into a tiger! He also did the old standby tricks of sawing a man in half and stretching a man until he was 15 feet tall. Most of the magic was lost on Peyton, but Kyle and I enjoyed it.
Peyton's favorite parts of the show were the ones that included animals. He just loved the horses...
... and the zebras. Um, yeah, why were there zebras? We couldn't quite figure that one out.
After the horses and zebras left the floor, Peyton continually asked where they went. He was so sad that they were gone. Luckily, the next act was a bunch of dogs doing tricks. They weren't quite as interesting to Peyton, but still entertaining.
Next, these two groups of people did acrobatics on these giant swings that were constantly swinging back and forth. Impressive.
Other highlights of the show included these two women being shot out of cannons all the way across the entire arena.
This was another group of acrobats doing flips between all four of the swings as they were swinging back and forth.
Peyton was never too impressed when the acts didn't involve animals. I think he just didn't know that what the people were doing was difficult. But, the elephants came out next and Peyton was captivated again. I also like the elephants a lot. It is amazing what tricks they can do, even being as huge as they are.
After the elephants, Kyle's favorite - the tigers - came out.
There were a few other random acts, like the women doing the acrobatics on the hanging ropes, some tightrope walkers, and two guys doing a performance on these big wheels. Our seats were at the end of the arena, on the short side of the rectangle, so there were some things that we couldn't see. We couldn't see the tightrope act at all because it was set up perpendicular to our seats. I was pretty disappointed with the seats, but oh well. The circus ended with another big number.
Peyton loved the show, especially all of the animals. He said all of the animals were "kall" (meaning "cool"). He couldn't stop talking about the horses, zebras, elephants, and tigers all night. He also associates clowns with the circus now. It was a good show and I'm glad Peyton enjoyed it.
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