matt's birthday!

is actually may 6. but we celebrated it on march 4. and for good reason.

matt is really enthusiastic about very few things in life (a sad but true fact about him). one thing that is possibly at the top of his chart though is cirque du soleil. we saw "la nouba" (a permanant show in orlando) the night we got married (since we got married at 9:30 in the morning, we had plenty of time for dinner and show that night). matt was so hooked. don't get me wrong- i am too, but matt especially!

so i saw that "totem", a new show, was coming to charlotte during march. actually, i heard it on the radio, but that's beside the point. this was in january and i immediately got online and bought us 2 tickets. i asked him how he would feel about celebrating his birthday 2 months early (since i can't exactly justify 2 $90 tickets in the budget without a good reason) and when i told him what reason, he said he would love the celebrate early!

so we did. and it was amazing to say the least. we were curious to see if a traveling show would be just as amazing as a permanant one and i'm here to tell you, it is. the music was amazing. the acts were amazing. and i'm not using the word amazing lightly- that's truly what it all is. i can't even describe the acts but every single on of them took your breath away (literally). here are some pictures with some very brief descriptions under.

trapeze artists. crazy!! they were at least 15 feet up in the air, no harness, just a trampoline underneath them. he threw her around like she was nothing. it was so beautiful and crazy!

this was the opening act. he was a hoop dancer and it was really neat.

this was crazy too! they were roller skaters on this small drum doing all these terffifying lifts and spins. and they were going around the drum really fast. then he chained her to her neck and spun her around. scary!

this was the most unique act of the evening. these girls spun square pieces of fabric with their feet and arms. i don't know how they had the endurance to do all those tricks. then one of them held the other with one foot and the other held on with one arm and they spun fabric on their other 3 appendages. it was crazy!



this act was 4 girls on really high unicycles who had a bunch of metal bowls on their head and would kick them onto the others heads while continuing to ride their unicycle with one foot. they would throw them so fast and all at one person. they only dropped 2!

this was neat. they were doing a bunch of tricks on these bouncy balance beam type things.

if you've never had the chance to see a cirque du soleil show, take the opportunity should it arise! we are going to see a different show in columbia in may (maybe a graduation gift?) and i can't wait!