There were two kinds of tickets: "chaises" (chairs) and something else we didn't recognize for 5 euro less. We decided to pay the extra 20 euro just in case we were stuck standing holding the girls up for an hour and a half. It turns out the other tickets were for bleacher seats at the back of the tent, whereas we were in the front row with the bigwigs, close enough to see the dust crack off the end of the whip, smell the lions and feel the gentle mist of mud on our cheeks when the camels ran by. The show started off with the animal tamer with two lions and a tiger. It was too intense for Samantha, Summer, and Allison because they were only four feet away from us, and one of the lions kept snarling and swatting its paw. I thought it was the best part of the show.
After that there was a juggler, a girl who climbed a rope and did tricks, two boys riding unicycles, two large horses that could run in circles, a donkey, a llama, two girls with hula-hoops, two snakes that the kids got to touch, a clown that directed members of the audience in a performance of Romeo and Juliet, the aforementioned camels (which were huge), and Allison's favorite, the monkey riding on the back of miniature pony:
The show concluded with a bunch of suckers paying ten euro to get their picture taken with a lion cub:
It was a small scale production, but we had a lot of fun. The show had the same intimacy that makes the Austin Zoo so pleasant.
