The Circus!

Also while Memom and Pop-Pop were visiting, we went to the Shriner's Circus. It was the kids first circus and it was pretty exciting. They got to do several firsts like riding a camel (wow!), holding a snake (yikes!), and the inevitable stepping in vomit (gross!).
As far as the camel riding goes, we got there early - I know! Can you believe it?! And they had elephant rides, camel rides and a couple other things like face painting going on. Both Logan and Addison wanted to ride the camel until they got up on the stand and Addison got scared. Then Logan got a little freaked out and wouldn't go by himself. So... 2 minutes and $32 later, Mommy was riding the camel with each of them individually because they wouldn't let me and my whopping 40 lb. kids ride together. Never mind that the Dad in front of us outweighed all three of us by 150%! It was pretty cool - I've never riden a camel either! - and the kids like to tell people they rode a camel at their young ages.

During the intermission, the floodgates openned again and right in front of us, was this guy and a huge yellow snake. We were second in line and Logan went right up there and got that snake and was so proud. As you can see, Addison was slightly less enthusiastic.

The kids got somewhat disappointed (note sarcasm here) when we told them they could not have some light up toys that were being peddled about the circus - all they saw were these cool toys that it seemed every other kid had, and all we saw was junk and all we heard was $15/each. When things got a little slow, I snuck them out (I'm not sure how you do that with 3 kids, but I did) and we found something for each of them under $10 and they are (amazingly) still working and still played with A LOT! Poor MeMom, Pop Pop Wags, Grandma and Pop Pop Kersh were ignored, but we hope they still had fun.