Cost while at Ringling Circus?

[Emmaline Lola]

We have a friend who works for Ringling Bros. so we got FREE tickets! And got to see the animals before the show..........pretty cool! My dd2 fell in love with Asia the elephant (kind of fitting since we are adopting her sister from China), anyway, we got her a toy elephant, kind of like a rubber material, she LOVES it and it was $15, they had a smaller one but that was $12...............food was outrageous, like disney prices but add a dollar or two..............overall, I was surprised at how much dd enjoyed it....I thought 2 would be to young to "get it", but she loved it!

It was pretty to cool to meet the lion tamer backstage and have my dd hug him for good luck, and then to see him fighting these tigers 30 minutes later! I enjoyed it!

Bring alot of $$$, and have fun!

 

[mlwear]

Thanks so much for all the replies and suggestions!
I think I'm going to carry in some bottled water, if I can, and be sure the kids are well fed before we go.
As with many, my kids don't get souvenirs--they are so "trained" they won't take the free balloons offered at restaurants-- (at Disney they use their own money and are quite frugal), but this is the first circus we have attended and after paying for pricey tickets, it may be the last . I thought we may let them get one thing. Younger DS may want something--I fgured there would be some thing that ALL the kids will have. Older DS is a wise one and will probably ask if he can have the $ we would have spent on his toy instead I like the idea of bringing our own twirly light up toy (have a new one that was a BD gift and is still in the package). DS doesn't like it and when I got it out last night he yelled and told me he didn't want to take it to the circus (he has autism and some of that stuff freaks him out wondering how he'll react to a bunch of them in the crowd.)
I know they will want a snack. At least I'm prepared as is DH who now at least won't make a fuss while we are there about the prices.
Thanks to all for your help