This weekend is a family-friendly one Downtown, because the circus is coming! The FedExForum is full of lions and elephants as the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus makes a stop for the weekend. There will be five shows – 7 PM Thursday, 7 PM Friday, 1 PM and 5 PM Saturday, and 2 PM Sunday. It’s the circus’ Illuscination (Gold) tour, which you can read more about here.
You can buy tickets on their website.
A bonus tip if you attend the Friday, December 10 show: Stop by the Doubletree Hotel at Third and Union beforehand for Cookies and Milk with Santa. He’ll be there from 3 to 7 to benefit Porter-Leath. Santa will have candy canes and chocolate chip cookies, and for a $5 suggested donation to Porter-Leath, you can have your child’s photo taken with Santa.
Where to eat before or after the show? Three of the family-friendliest restaurants Downtown are nearby on Second. Kooky Canuck has huge ice cream sundaes, skillet cookies, and s’mores you make at the table. Flying Fish has all kinds of fun photos and fish on the wall, and is a neat place to take kids. Then, of course, there’s Huey’s, with great burgers and toothpicks to blow at the ceiling. Can’t go wrong with any of these.