Project 52 Date #3

This date I have been looking forward to for awhile because it took quite a lot of planning to get it right.... Last week I picked a date specific date from the jar that said " Your off to the Circus, it's in town on the 21st-23rd." (Yes this is two out of the house dates in a month, but it was just by chance) My first thought was, oh no, JT works those nights this is going to be impossible to do! Until I ran across some tickets for the circus in Kingsville on Tuesday night (which I had already set aside for our date night) PERFECT! Okay there were a few other snags that happened, such as the city posting the wrong times on their website, the point of contact for the circus not answering her phone for 2 days, the location of the circus not showing up on any mapping system or JT trying to take over the navigating of the drive to the date. But we decided to chance it all and try our luck for the Circus. Boy are we glad we did!

So we kissed Jocelyn goodbye, and said thanks to Grami for watching her and off we went. We had a nice conversation on the way there (45 minutes to chat) about when we were last at the circus, what were we looking forward to etc etc. Throw in a few conversations here and there and it made the time pass pretty quickly. We get there and we both said "this is it??" It was a small little expo center in the middle of no where. But the good part was, we had front row seats, I mean literally we were three rows from the front. I was even bummed that I forgot our binoculars so we could see all the awesome details but we didn't even need them!

Before the circus started, I turned to JT and said "you are now a 10 yr old boy, GO!" He laughed but it was really fun watching him watch with intensity at the white tigers, chuckle out load at the clown with his stuff elephant (really a small dog in an elephant costume) and gaze in wonder at the acrobatics! We had a really great time.... long drive... but definitely worth it. I'm really looking forward to our next date to see what is in store.

JT Gazing in Wonder

JT Wants to Teach Shadow how to do this for Jocelyn

Maybe our date #4???

JT Says: I knew i had a surprise coming my way on Tuesday night but would never have guessed I'd be going to the circus! I didn't even know there was a circus in town! I'm not a huge circus fan but I do like Lions and tigers doing tricks, and who doesn't like 25 clowns popping out of a little car? So we hop in the car and drive about 45 minutes to K'ville and make our way to this obscure venue out in the boonies(sorta) of Kingsville. It's a small circus run by the Shriner's (we had to google Shriner's on the way home to figure out what they really were). It was great! White tigers and ladies swinging from the ceiling by their fingertips and even stunt poodles! Yes, I said stunt poodles. We didn't stay for the whole show because it's a bit of a drive out there and back but I had a good time reliving some childhood circus memories and creating a couple new ones with Mia.