Bello Mania!

Today was fantastic. I saw the one and only Demetrius Alexandro Claudio Amadeus Bello Nock a.k.a Bello Nock from Bello Mania. His family has been in the circus for 7 generations. He did various tricks like holding a chair and walking on a tightrope at the same time. First, he jumped on a trampoline and pretended to hurt himself. He hit his private parts with the hard edges of the trampoline and stuck his head between the bouncy part and the edges of the trampoline. After that, his daughter, Annaliese, lied down in a net that lifted her up in the air while she twisted and twirled through the air. Next, a cowboy called A.J Silver did amazing lasso tricks. He made the lasso “walk” on his arm too. Also, Annaliese walked on the tightrope in honor of one of her ancestors. Bello walked on it too. He also rode a Lalaloopsy-sized bicycle and sat on a chair while on the tightrope. When Bello got down from the tightrope, he climbed on about 8 chairs placed on top of each other. A.J Silver came back and did a dance. While he danced he cut out Bello's figure, with a whip, out of a piece of paper that Bello was holding with his hands. In addition, the announcer did a parody of “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader”. It was called “Are You Smarter than a 1st grader”. There was a 1st grader that got chosen out from the audience. Bello was the person she was up against. Bello got to pick the category. He picked Natural Science first. The question was why a gorilla's nose is so big. Bello answered: “Have you seen the size of their fingers?” while a picture behind him showed a gorilla picking his nose. The points went to the little girl, because Bello has answered with a question. He picked another category in which Bello had to say the younger opponent’s favorite teacher. Bello just answered a random name. Of course the points went to the little girl again. The last and final category that Bello chose was U.S. Math. He said it as it was spelled us Math. The question was: “If a train was delayed at the station and another train was delayed at the station, where are both trains?” While Bello was counting with his fingers the little girl answered. Her prize was a “$5,000 bill” and Bello had to say, “I am not smarter than a 1st grader.” The second to last act was very cool. He asked a teenager to hold a balloon over her head and he got a thin balloon and used it like a bow. He loaded it with nothing and actually popped the bigger balloon. When the teenager was getting off stage he asked for a kiss on the cheek and when she was about to kiss him he turned his head which ended up as a kiss to the mouth. Finally, he climbed up a plastic pole that kept tilting, to reach a balloon that had floated upward. Amazing, right? 

Going to Philly II

-The next day

First, I went to Independence Hall. It was where meetings between the colonies were held about British taxes and such. I went to see the Liberty Bell too. And may I say it was huge and very heavy! (In this corner, fighting for the red, white, and blue, weighing 1 ton and 80 lbs… the Liberty Bell!) Later, I went to the National Museum of American Jewish History where I saw documentaries about famous Jewish people such as baseball players, actors, etc…. Besides that I looked at baseball cards from Jewish baseball players. That was pretty much everything I did in Philadelphia and I had a blast.

                                                                        Liberty Bell

                   Independence Hall

F.Y.I: I did not post anything for so long because my computer glitched for a long time.