Circ Du Nizhny

Wendy and I have been in search of really fun things to do out here in Nizhny. For those who read our post about the endless winter, well... it is still a blizzard outside. So as of right now a lot of indoor activities are what appeal to us.Our new friend Fransisca suggested that we all go to the circus, we had wanted to go earlier this year when they advertised that they had "boxing bears" I thought it would be so cute but we never ended up going. 

 This is the outside of the circus building. Some people told us that it went under a 20 year remodel, which by Russian standards seems fairly reasonable. The latest and newest metro stop took something like 16 years to complete.

 Here is Wendy with our German friends Fransisca and Sven. They are from Frankfurt and are going to be here for another 2.5 years. We really like them and had a Hobbit party with them last Friday.

 So the idea of the circus was 5 continents... A king lost his crown and we had to go to 5 continents to help him find his crown. This was the Arabian part I suppose, sometimes it was a little hard to tell where we were in the world. These camels were really cool and I wondered about how heavy they are. Could they kill you if they stepped on you?

Our favorite part was the bears. They had four bears running around the arena doing tricks. I wanted to take one home with me, but seeing as we are taking care of other people's cats and this might cause problems, I decided against it. The bar in the far middle is doing summersaults. All the animals in the show were spot on with stunts until a big crane looking bird flew into the crowd and a staff guy had to come collect it (oh and a pigeon did the same also).

Here is a big dog in a hamster wheel walking while a little dog on top is walking the opposite way. We really liked the dog part and they had a bunch of dalmations (not 101) but still like 10 or something. 

All in all our circus adventure was a success and even though we might not make it back, we were really happy we decided to go. So if you find yourself in Russia with not a lot of things on your schedule, you might think about giving the circus a try.