The Circus!

The expensive day was salvaged! We made it to the circus and it was pure delight. Now please don't picture lions, clowns and cotton candy, there was nothing of the sort. The Shanghai circus is magic and mind mending acrobatics.

It really was one of the most impressive shows I have ever been to. These performers can bend their bodies better than any hippy doing yoga... I can't even begin to describe it. Now let's not think about how they were probably trained from childhood and sold into it from infancy and even suffered most of they day during the intense physical training aspect of it all... but we'll just think about how successful their training was!

We were like children during the performance, oohing and aahing through out the entire show. They stood on top of each other as they bent in all directions being held up by what seemed like one persons finger. This is a must see in China. I have to say that the finally was a bit of a let down. They had a big sphere center stage as motorcycles entered it. They did various stunts in it which was most impressive, but the finale was all 9 cyclists in there. It was cool that they had that many riding around in their, but we found much of the other stunts more impressive.

This event is really hard to describe, I look forward to showing you the pictures, but I just remembered no cameras were allowed. Oh well, I'll have to hold on to this mental picture. Sorry.