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| - Ok I thought well there is a circus coming to town at "1 Saint Vincents Drive, Novato, CA" and maybe we should go take our child to see it. I always used to fondly remember going to the circus in Nola. But what I overlooked was that was Ringling Bros. They had huge big tops, lions, elephants, tons of funny clowns and more.
Well this place is the exact opposite. First we drove up to a hay field and were motioned in by Marin for hire clowns "Old Ladies with a red nose" then asked for $4 to park. Ok whatever, $4 for a hay field. Then we walk up to a tent and semi trailer to get tickets. Kids get in for free.. thats their catch! You think well maybe it'll be alright since you seemed to get a $5 credit. Ok then we go inside the tent is newer one, looks like they spent some money on it, but it's really tiny, like a quarter of what I was expecting.
Well then that's when the fun starts. The entrances are choked by the people selling cans of soda, water, Iceys for $3. The bleachers are tiny, but I guess thats to be expected in a tiny tent. We decided to get a Icey it seemed a bit much for ice and flavored water. It tasted terrible, they were thinning out the syrup with water to maybe 15% of what it was supposed to be.. times must be tough they have to give you a flaverless Icie, but it was cold so that was a plus.
Then the circus starts, which is proceeded my chubby Columbian children dressed as clowns.. it was really really bad, I know there kids, but WTF? A circus where half the staff are SA children? Something tells me they are cheap too with the staff and cant afford grown up clowns :( Then the next act is a father some clown that only squeak whistles and toss balls at the crowd. A ball was thrown and hit my wife knocking the $3 Icey all over her and the lady next to her. NICE!
Then we have a intermission, to sell $3 ballons, great a time killer where they try hard sell tactics to children to blackmail their parents into buying $3 garbage.
Ok I wont bore you with more and more details the list goes on and on and on. We basically had 3 intermissions to sell more stuff during a 30 cicrus show. People were getting up mid show and leaving. We decided to stay, we were strangely intrigued by the chubby SA children that seem to be 1/2 of the show. Do child labor laws not apply since they are not Americans? Who knows.
There bottom line.. get you into the tent and try hard sell tactics to children. Well we didn't fall for it or our child. We told her that we would go to Toys R Us and get her some real toys. She agreed and we left with minimal pocket book damage, then proceeded to give the toy store some money.
The Short,
Cons: 90% bad acts, and deployable selling tactics to children
Pros: 2 acts are worth seeing (5mins) The semi high wire, and the motorcycles.
Verdict: DON'T GO. You time is worth more and better spent elsewhere.
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