The Family Circus

Heather and Tyler highly recommended going down to the Currie Barracks to check out Cirque Du Soleil after they took in a show last week, but after checking into how much the tickets cost, and then checking my empty wallet, we decided we probably shouldn't go. Fortunately, Heather forwarded us an email the next day that was advertising tickets that were 50% off for the Friday afternoon show, so we changed our minds and went. We brought Emma with us, and Gramma and Grampa Bourne brought Cy and Jilly, and Heather was nice enough to watch Ashley for the few hours we were gone.

We thought we had left with plenty of time to spare, but we got caught in a horrible traffic jam just outside the barracks, and it took us over a half an hour to get from the exit off of Crowchild Trail to the parking lot. We missed the first little bit of the show, but Gramma, Cy, and Jilly were already there and they told us we didn't really miss anything spectacular.

The rest of the show was indeed spectacular, and we're really glad we went. We had an excellent view from our seats, but looking around, I don't think there was really a bad seat in the house. It's hard to say what the best part was, because each act was just as good as any other. I think Emma's favorite was the little person they had suspended from a bunch of huge balloons that went bouncing through the crowd like a beach ball at a football game. She also liked the trampoline act and was clapping with both her hands and her feet when they were performing.

Some of the other acts included jugglers, some guys who rolled around in giant hula hoops, guys doing flips on a teeter-totter, a guy doing tricks on a ladder, contortionists, dancers, a couple swinging around from some straps, a unicycle riding high wire hula hooper, and a bunch of tumblers doing tricks on the parallel bars. There was probably more, but you have to see it to appreciate it anyways. I think all of the Bourne side of the family ended up going at one point or another, and the Masons went to the same show we did, but we didn't run into them at all. They probably just blended in with the rest of the carnies.

I'd love to go again the next time they're in town, even if we don't get the half price tickets, and I recommend it to anyone who is a fan of francophonic acrobatics.