Cirque Dreams at Ramstein Air Base

After Oscar's birthday party, I took Oscar and Calvin to Ramstein Air Base to see Cirque Dreams.  The show was free (compliments of Armed Forces Entertainment).  A performance stage had been constructed inside a large airplane hangar.  The seating was just removable benches that had been set up on the floor of the hangar.  It was really crowded and we got there right as the show was about to start so we had to hunt to find poor seats in the back.  Because the floor of the hangar was not sloped, we had a hard time seeing much more than the backs of the people sitting in front of us.  Lots of people were standing in the aisles because it gave a better view.  Initially I thought we should just give up and go home but we had driven over an hour to get there so I decided to just wait and see if things improved with time.  In fact they did improve -- but not until lots of other people sitting near us left early (because they were also unable to see).  Once people started leaving, our view improved significantly.


The boys both really liked the show.  Calvin called it a talent show.  The photos are not great, but considering where we sat, I was pretty happy with how they turned out.  Most of them are cropped to eliminated people's heads that were in the bottom of the frame.  In some of them, you can see the shadows.

This balancing guy at the end was incredible.  The tubes were rolling back and forth but he never fell off.

After the show was over, I took a picture of the stage from our seats (no zoom lens this time).