The list of reasons to love Ypsilanti just gets longer for me, and having the Kelly Miller Circus roll in and set up in Riverside Park is the latest addition. I had to leave for South Haven show that day, so I was not able to see the performance, but at 9:00 that morning, we were all encouraged to come down and see the elephant raise the big top. This I had to see.
Not only did Lisa the elephant raise the biggest and heaviest poles of the big top, she did it with ease and followed the quiet commands of her very laid back handler. She knew what she was doing and it was amazing to watch.
As soon as we entered the park, we came around the back of a couple of camping trailers, and were completly suprised (more like shocked) to see five tigers chilling out in a pen. Yeah, I said pen, not a big bulky cage, not with a giant moat surrounding them like at the zoo, a metal and wire pen, just set on the grass.
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