The Star Family Circus

Today Daddy took Karston, Cale, Opa, and Grammy to a small, family-run circus in Burlington. As a bonus, Karston's friends from school Drew and Lexi with their mom Lucy came along! At first, our hopes were low because we couldn't get additional information when we called the Armory where the circus was held. However, we went with free kid admission coupons from Bandido's Mexican restaurant just to see.

Luckily, the show was phenomenal!

The lead, father or grandfather of the group, juggled, flipped, and spun huge cylinders, 4x4 feet sheets of painted plywood, and then full-grown people all with his feet! Yes, upside down, using just his feet, and never missing once. The ladies did twirly rope acts suspended only by their hair, and other bizarre acts interspersed with cute animal tricks. Cale barely made a sound, except occasional enthusiastic clapping, through the performances because he was captivated. Karston kept turning around to make sure we saw what just happened with huge eyes ready to pop out. Karston was very excited, and the show was very exciting.

At the end of the show, there was one more act outside because it did not fit inside: the “Cage of Death” - a forty-foot-tall spinning contraption with a 10’ diameter ring on it. The performer ran inside of this open air ring to make the entire cage rotate. Then he juggled while riding it. Then he jumped rope while free falling as it rotated. This show was almost too scary to watch! Then he climbed outside of the open ring and walked on top of it as it continued to go into forty-foot circles. Creepy! Then he jumped rope, on the outside of it as it was rotating. Please, please get down, this is too much. We like you, we had our money’s worth; we don’t want you dropping 40’ to the ground. He didn’t listen. He then got a black bag and put it over his head and did it some more, blindfolded…

If you happen to see flyers for the “Star Family Circus” pick one up and go to the show – amazing!