Yesterday we went to the ‘Great Moscow Circus'!!! It was great!  They had clowns and magic tricks and Gymnasts and jugglers who juggled fire!

The gymnasts were great and freaky!

There was this one woman who could twist herself in half and then fold herself in half! It was amazing! She could also swing what looked like about 15 hoola-hoops!

Two other ladies called the ‘Mongolian Angels’ were spectacular! They could bend around each other and balance on top of each other, and the weirdest thing they did was they put two special kind of sticks into a hole on the table they were performing on and then they would put their mouths around the knob that was on the top of the stick and then lift up their hands and legs and would be balancing by their mouths! 

The magic tricks were cool! One lady would hop into this box and then a man would fold the box into what looked like it was no bigger than a foot wide and a foot tall and a foot in width! Then he stuck three long swords in and then he would take them out, unfold the box and out came the lady! (All in one piece! Believe it or not!) Also another trick they did was the man would lie down in bed; pull the sheet over him and almost instantly, the sheets would come off, and out came the lady!

Ninno the clown was hilarious!! (As all clowns are I suppose!) The Ring Master would announce “Ninno the Clown!” and out of the curtain popped a man in a black and white ball suit, black tuft of hair, a white face, painted pink cheeks an a plastic black nose! Instead of talking, the clown had a whistle in his mouth that he blew. He strode into the centre of the stage, smiling, and waving and the crowd clapped. But the crowd didn’t cheer enough for poor Ninno, suddenly, his face saddened, he looked at the Ring Master, held out his hands in a ‘what is wrong with them?’ way. He turned his back and slowly walked behind the curtain.  The crowd gave a moan of sympathy. Dad shouted out, “We want Ninno!” reading all our minds! The ringmaster said into the loud speakers, “Aww, come on people. Every one put your hands together for Ninno, the Great clown!!!” the crowd went wild, and out hopped a happy Ninno, blowing his whistle. He pretended to juggle with imaginary balls making a short blow with his whistle for every time he flicked his hand. Then he held up his hand with the 2 sign on it, meaning he will juggle with two balls. He pulled out two balls from an orange box with the words NINNO on it that the ringmaster was holding, with one hand he juggled, whistling. Then he held up 4 fingers, and juggled with four balls, still whistling instead of talking. Then he held up 10 fingers! And pulled out ten balls, all clumped together against his chest, so he wouldn’t drop any. But three times he purposefully dropped a ball and blew his whistle three quick sort times, and he sounded like he was saying, “Pick it up.” to the ringmaster.  Then when he juggled, you could see, that 4 of the balls were tied up in a cluster to make one ball, and another 5 were tied up to make another ball! And so he juggled with three balls, it was hilarious! Another time he was announced, he was sitting in amongst the crowd! When he came down to stage, he had signalled with his hands two innocent bystanders and made the guy funnily waddle up, and fall on one knee and hold a huge fake rose in front of the lady, who was told to put her hands on her heart, and her head on one side. Ninno was going to paint them in one of his ‘famous works of art!’ as the ringmaster said. He painted for a few minutes, but he had to keep reminding the lady to keep her head cocked. He was funny as!!!! But when he showed the crowd his painting, it was just the rose; he hadn’t even done the people!!! When his turn was up again he did a trick that I am teaching myself to do! He had a bucket, showed every body that it was empty, he even turned it upside down and thumped it to prove it was empty, and then he threw and imaginary ball or coin into the air and his eyes ‘watched’ it rise into the air and then fall into the bucket, but, here's the rough, there came a noise as soon an his eyes reached the bucket, it sounded just like a coin had landed into the bucket! He showed us a couple of times, and you could see nothing was in the air. he evan got one of the people in the front row to throw a 'ball' at him! I'd tell you how he did it but I dont htink I should! I can do that trick too!! I loved Ninno the clown!

 Also they had a show were a man would lift this kind of ring with material hanging down over this lady, and although you could still see her head, she came out with an entirely different dress on! There were about 12-14 hoops. We think we've figured how she does it but i wont tell u!!.

The big finale was a huge metal ball that had up to 3 motorbikes in it with a lady standing in the middle! There were going to be 4 motorbikes but one engine had problems. They were riding at approximately 80Km and the circle is 3m wide!

It was Super-cala-fraga-listic-espe-ala-dosious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(From the movie Mary  Popins)

....CodeRed Jack...