A night under the Big Top

I am guessing by now, if you read Pam101 regularly, you know that I tend to get wrapped up in things. 

I get all caught up in my imagination and my mind never seems to stop once it has started. 

This happened to me last night under the big top.

At the Kelly Miller circus. 

Now, if you remove the thoughts of how they treat animals (Pam101 didn't see anything shady or bad conditions) and push out of your mind the fact that they seriously jack the price of everything up (seriously, $10 for a glow sword) and can avoid stepping in elephant poop...the circus is a magical place. 

 

Not, David Blaine magic. But romantic magic. Not hearts and romance, magic BUT a romantic notion of magic.   I even looked up "romantic notion" to make sure I was using it correctly here. 

4. Imaginative but impractical; visionary

5. Not based on fact; imaginary or fictitious

Think about it. 

 Overnight a group of people...swoop into your town.  They bring with them bright colors, animals from a far off land, humor, fun and a bit of freakishness.   Overnight they set up a magical place where for an hour and half you can be transported somewhere else.  You sit under the big top and watch tigers do tricks, watch camels run around with a zebra, close your eyes and pray the lady who is on a trapeze doesn't fall, you can hear kids laughing, where little noses are covered in a sugary stickiness from too much cotton candy, where little faces stare mesmerized at clowns, You are somewhere else and you never left your hometown.

It's magic.

Pam101 has been a lot of places, I have seen elephants in India, I rode an elephant at a palace in India.  But last night, I couldn't help be get caught up thinking...many of these people will only see an elephant in person one time. And it is here. It is here at the County Fair Grounds. 

And to me...that is something worth getting wrapped up in.