It was just okay..

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Yesterday I brought 3 of the kids to see Cirque De La Symphonie. Basically it was a symphony orchestra playing, and then people would come out and do some circus type tricks. There was juggling, a bit of magic, some aerial stunts.. It was okay.. Overall it's a great idea.. it's something that would entertain the kids, and there were tons and tons of kids there, so this sort of helped introduce kids to the symphony and some classical music.. nothing wrong with that. Some parts were a little boring as they would feature the orchestra for a piece here and there, so no acrobats during those pieces... String instruments put me to sleep... I mean they're good, and those people have incredible talent and I'm not trying to take away from the difficulty of what they do.. it's just me! Anytime I've listened to a symphony orchestra I've gotten very sleepy! The acrobats and juggling etc were good and fun.. I think maybe it just wasn't what I was expecting... and I've seen that sort of thing before numerous times. We see jugglers and magicians at the library every couple of months. The aerial stunts were incredible.. but we've seen that recently as well at the Renaissance festival. So maybe it's just me.. maybe I've just seen it all before so it's not so impressive anymore.. Though I still admire the people who do it and can see how incredibly difficult the stunts are, and they did it extremely well! They were very talented acrobats! I'm still glad I went.. it was better than spending the afternoon at home doing nothing. The kids did seem to enjoy it (though like me they weren't enthusiastically impressed).. We tried it.. now we know.. next year we probably won't go..