Well, that sucked

Took Britt to the Shrine Circus tonight.

She was less than enthralled. She wiggled and flopped and squirmed the whole time because she wanted to run around and play. She kept trying to grab the kid next to me, and she laid her head on the head of the kid in front of us, who jumped like he got a hot poker shoved up his ass and then shot us a fierce look. Hell, she was just trying to give him some love! Also, she threw her binky God-knows-where -- we never found it.

The circus itself was pretty cheesy. Everything looked faded and worn. The trapeze guy missed the triple somersault and fell into the net. The Wheel of Destiny guy almost fell off at least twice. Some of the cats in the cat act did not cooperate at all. There was a hula hoop girl and way too many juggling acts. Maybe they saved the good stuff for after intermission, but we wouldn't know because that's when we left.

Am I just too old for the circus to be a magical experience anymore, or should we have held out for the Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey version?