The Cold, Horrible Photography, and Elephants

Once or twice a year the circus comes to town. They bring elephants on trains, and in order to get them across the river into Boston , Massachusetts Avenue is shut down so they can parade the elephants into the city. A crowd gathered to watch all this at 8pm.


I had pictured a scene from Aladdin or the Lion King, but what I got was an hour long wait out in the freezing cold to get a minute and a half glimpse of these elephants, horses, and ponies that didn't look like they were having much of a good time either. It was also too dark to get a decent picture with my camera. I guess the odd sight of elephants walking down the street in Cambridge counts for something though. The strangest thing I had seen traveling down Massachusetts Avenue prior to this was a guy dressed up as Abraham Lincoln riding a segway scooter.