Circus Circus Shanghai

We had heard that going to the circus is a must here in Shanghai so we jumped at the opportunity when our building offered a night out for its residents. Their description was the best -- a "STUNNING, MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR ACROBATIC SHOW" (yes, all in caps). 

Yesterday evening, we joined our neighbors and piled into two tourist buses for a quick, 20-minute ride to the theater. The show itself was great; I'd describe it as a low-budget Cirque du Soleil performance without the underlying story, but with just as much talent.  

Mike's favorite were the guys that jumped frontwards and backwards through towers of hoops, combined with cartwheels, round-offs and flips. Mine were the motorcyclists trapped in a globe (see pic below); one in there was impressive enough, but at a certain point, he was joined by seven other riders going up, down and around the globe. How they didn't crash into one another completely amazed me.  

By the way, speaking of Chinese acrobats, have you been watching the Olympics? I've been so bummed to miss out on pretty much all of it. Without premium cable, we get no Olympics coverage whatsoever. I've had to resort to Chinese coverage (read: badminton and ping pong) on televisions in bars.   

An instagram I snuck at the end of the show