Circus and Movie (End August)

Every year, my company treats us to summer picnic. We don’t always go, but this time the picnic was at the circus – barnum and baily. Even if we did not have Neil, we would have gone to the circus because Lisa loves it. In fact we were a little apprehensive about how Neil was going to respond to it. After all, he had never gone out to some place where he had to sit quietly in the dark for a long time. But we had to start somewhere. So we took him.

He liked it very much. He did not watch the circus most of the time, in fact our seats were way high up to really enjoy the show. But he loved the glitz and lighting. In fact half the time he spent looking up at spotlights trying to figure out where they came from. It was a bit loud, but he had no problem with the noise. We did not force him to sit in our laps, in fact we let stand at our feet, and sometimes in the row behind us. He did not cry even once.

We were emboldened by this experience and took him to a movie. His first movie – Wall-e. We went on Sunday afternoon show. We were optimists and expected the theater to be almost empty because the movie has been running for quite some time, and not many people come right after Sunday lunch. Well, it was more than half full, so our optimism died out. Well, the ‘ism’ depends on your viewpoint, I guessJ.

We were fully prepared to miss half the movie each. But surprisingly, Neil behaved very well. He wanted to move about a bit, and was a little restless. But he did not cry, did not make us go out. In fact after a half an hour or so, he got bored, and slept.

We won a little bit of freedom that afternoon.