Tigers and elephants and motorcycles, oh my! at circus in Abilene
photos by Daniel Gomez/Special to the Reporter-News
A circus performer rides on the trunk of an elephant at the Suez Shrine Circus on Saturday at the Abilene Expo Center Coliseum.
By Christopher Collins
from: reporternews.com
October 6, 2012
This has to be a child's wonderland.
Which is fitting, because kids — and parents with kids in tow — were the nearly exclusive attendees at the Suez Shrine Circus at the Taylor County Coliseum on Saturday night.
By Christopher Collins
from: reporternews.com
October 6, 2012
This has to be a child's wonderland.
Which is fitting, because kids — and parents with kids in tow — were the nearly exclusive attendees at the Suez Shrine Circus at the Taylor County Coliseum on Saturday night.
Pretty much everything that kids like was in abundance, including toys, snacks and clowns (not the scary kind).
Before the actual show started, the kiddos were treated to pony and elephant rides, face painting and a tiger-shaped bounce house. Vendors sold light-up toy swords and Dora the Explorer balloons.
A man walked through the coliseum selling snow cones, and was surprisingly successful given the colder-than-usual temperature outside. More circus salesman made their way through the chaotic crowd, peddling popcorn and cotton candy.
A Bengal tiger performs for a crowd at the Suez Shrine Circus on Saturday at the Abilene Expo Center Coliseum.
Then, all the lights were turned off. The children — and some of the adults, too — were beside themselves with excitement.
Then, all the lights were turned off. The children — and some of the adults, too — were beside themselves with excitement.
"Are you ready?!" asked a voice that boomed through the venue.
The kids: a unanimous scream one could reasonably interpret as "yes, of course we're ready!"
First up was the tiger tamer. He brought out eight tigers and had them sit down on metal stools in the center of the enclosed ring. Somehow he got them to roll over and play with him like they were regular ol' kitty cats. The raw meat treats he fed them might have helped.
A clown came out front and center to make sure the crowd was still engaged between acts. One side of the coliseum yelled, and the other side yelled even louder.
Daniel Gomez/Special to the Reporter-News
John Brown holds his daughter Amaya Brown, 1, as she rides a miniature horse at the Suez Shrine Circus in the Abilene Expo Center Coliseum on Saturday.
The circus reached a fever pitch when a man rode a motorcycle across a tight rope with two trapeze artists hanging on for dear life from a rope that dangled from the bike. Then, when the audience thought it couldn't get any more precarious, the motorcyclist flipped his bike, with one trapeze artist still attached, over the tight rope, again and again.
Seriously, you can't see this anywhere else.
read more at:
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2012/oct/06/tigers-and-elephants-and-motorcycles-oh-my-at-in/
John Brown holds his daughter Amaya Brown, 1, as she rides a miniature horse at the Suez Shrine Circus in the Abilene Expo Center Coliseum on Saturday.
The circus reached a fever pitch when a man rode a motorcycle across a tight rope with two trapeze artists hanging on for dear life from a rope that dangled from the bike. Then, when the audience thought it couldn't get any more precarious, the motorcyclist flipped his bike, with one trapeze artist still attached, over the tight rope, again and again.
Seriously, you can't see this anywhere else.
read more at:
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2012/oct/06/tigers-and-elephants-and-motorcycles-oh-my-at-in/
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