This morning, we were going to go to the circus. Me, Niklas, and Mum took the tram to the circus while Dad drove Grandma and Grandpa. At the circus, we spent a while in the entrance tent, which had a Christmas-Market type fair in it. Then the time came for it to start, and we split up. Mum and Dad weren't going in.
The remaining group of people (Niklas, Grandma, Grandpa, and me) took our front-row seats and waited for the start of the show. We were so excited; this was our first-ever circus. The lights dimmed. And then a spotlight appeared; in it stood the circus director. He spoke for a short time, and then the show began for real.
I have to admit, the first act wasn't so good. It was a singing, dancing and mute drama performance, with one singer, a mime (a little girl who had gotten a book for Christmas) and her mother and Santa, also mimes, and six dancers. But then the next performance came on, and the next. There are too many to list all of them, but I'll tell you some of my favourites. There was an acrobatic team (without ropes), who created human towers and did huge jumps and flips in the air. It was the ultimate form of trust fall: there was one man who kept doing backflips from the shoulders of one group to the shoulders of the other, without looking. And then there was one jumps in which there were two jumpers: two towers, each of three people standing on top of one another, and then the top person from each tower jumped two the other tower. One had to do a huge frontflip to get really high, and the other one virtually dived onto the other tower so that he wouldn't hit the flipping man.
Then there were three Chinese girls who were contortionists. They did these crazy things such as getting into a very unlikely position, then getting into an unlikely position on top of the first person who is still in an unlikely position, and then the third girl doing the same on top of the other two. Then they unfolded themselves (still on top of each other) in a series of rolling moves that reminded me of one of those old wooden toys that unroll themselves if you turn around the top one. There was also a proper acrobatics team, another team with flips and jumps (although a more ground-based one), and then, my favourite, the show when the first acrobats and the contortionists combined into an aerial skipping team, which, for instance, did things like forming human towers and then skipping - while still in the towers! I found that really cool.
After the circus, we kind of whiled away the time until the evening.
When evening finally came, we went first to Grandma and Grandpa to talk about plans for the evening, and then back to the hotel to sleep, although we did set alarms for 11 o'clock so that we wouldn't sleep through New Year's Eve.
At 11 o'clock, we blearily dressed as warmly as possible, and then ventured outside. We went first to Grandma and Grandpa (AGAIN!), but then soon after that we walked to the park near their apartment. Here we set off our own fireworks; six golden rockets and two wish rockets. While we didn't set off any more, the fireworks lasted until at least 1 o'clock; I can't say for sure because we were asleep after 1 o'clock.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
The remaining group of people (Niklas, Grandma, Grandpa, and me) took our front-row seats and waited for the start of the show. We were so excited; this was our first-ever circus. The lights dimmed. And then a spotlight appeared; in it stood the circus director. He spoke for a short time, and then the show began for real.
I have to admit, the first act wasn't so good. It was a singing, dancing and mute drama performance, with one singer, a mime (a little girl who had gotten a book for Christmas) and her mother and Santa, also mimes, and six dancers. But then the next performance came on, and the next. There are too many to list all of them, but I'll tell you some of my favourites. There was an acrobatic team (without ropes), who created human towers and did huge jumps and flips in the air. It was the ultimate form of trust fall: there was one man who kept doing backflips from the shoulders of one group to the shoulders of the other, without looking. And then there was one jumps in which there were two jumpers: two towers, each of three people standing on top of one another, and then the top person from each tower jumped two the other tower. One had to do a huge frontflip to get really high, and the other one virtually dived onto the other tower so that he wouldn't hit the flipping man.
Then there were three Chinese girls who were contortionists. They did these crazy things such as getting into a very unlikely position, then getting into an unlikely position on top of the first person who is still in an unlikely position, and then the third girl doing the same on top of the other two. Then they unfolded themselves (still on top of each other) in a series of rolling moves that reminded me of one of those old wooden toys that unroll themselves if you turn around the top one. There was also a proper acrobatics team, another team with flips and jumps (although a more ground-based one), and then, my favourite, the show when the first acrobats and the contortionists combined into an aerial skipping team, which, for instance, did things like forming human towers and then skipping - while still in the towers! I found that really cool.
After the circus, we kind of whiled away the time until the evening.
When evening finally came, we went first to Grandma and Grandpa to talk about plans for the evening, and then back to the hotel to sleep, although we did set alarms for 11 o'clock so that we wouldn't sleep through New Year's Eve.
At 11 o'clock, we blearily dressed as warmly as possible, and then ventured outside. We went first to Grandma and Grandpa (AGAIN!), but then soon after that we walked to the park near their apartment. Here we set off our own fireworks; six golden rockets and two wish rockets. While we didn't set off any more, the fireworks lasted until at least 1 o'clock; I can't say for sure because we were asleep after 1 o'clock.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
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