Happy Anniversary!

This year for our 10th anniversary we went back to Santa Monica for the Cirque du Soleil show Kooza! (Instead of trying to take pictures I just downloaded them from their website)

We saw Cirque du Soleil the last time they were in Santa Monica - Dralion. Linda got us all tickets for her birthday (I know, a little backwards). That was right after Chad were engaged. Then on our way back from our honeymoon we stopped by in Irvine where they had the big top all ready for the show there. A couple of girls started talking to us, asking us what we were doing... They said they had a couple of tickets for that night shows (only open for the press and friends) we were waiting to hear how much they were going to scalp them for when they offered them to us for FREE! The seats were fabulous! Center stage about 8 rows back!

We didn't have quite as nice tickets this year but it was fun to reminisce and revisit some of the things we did 10 years ago.

This was the coolest part of the show! these two guys got this thing spinning so fast that they experienced zero gravity on the way down. It was impressive enough when they were both inside the circle but once one of them got on the outside and would jump up right at the top so he would free-fall for a moment...

Think Swing Dancing and Unicycles
The Traditional Trapeze, with a twist

Cirque's classic teeter-totter-flying-on-stilts

What circus is complete without a juggler?

And a tight-rope 'walker'

or a 100 foot high tower of chairs

Contortionists that make your body ache to watch them

We took the baby with us this time... He's been a busy baby this week. He went to Disneyland twice, stayed in a hotel, and went to Cirque du Soleil - what a lucky baby!

11.27.09