Circus!

On Saturday the kids and I went to the Appleton St. Circus presented by neighborhood kids (ages 5-8ish). Publicity was impressive—flyers on every telephone pole in a quarter-square-mile. When we arrived, the ticket taker (also the ring master and the clown) told us, “We’re a little disorganized. We haven’t finished training the dog.” (The dog’s name was Crouton.) The circus acts were accompanied by the house band of little brothers on bongos and ukulele. After the show, the parents of the cast served hot dogs and ice cream. If there is a better way to spend a summer afternoon, I don’t know what it is.