We’d never seen a Cirque Du Soleil show before. We knew they were meant to be spectacular but the ridiculously high prices had always put us off. However, we booked two good seats for La Nouba months before we left for Florida (the favourable exchange rate meant that it was much cheaper than seeing them here in the UK). La Nouba was designed specifically for Disney World and has it’s home in an enormous and eye-popping purpose built theatre in Downtown Disney. Every show is always sold out so when you walk into that gigantic theatre the most overwhelming detail is just how much money is involved.
Then the show starts. And when it’s over you know that you would have paid twice as much to witness what you’ve just seen. I could ramble on for ages about the various elements of the evening but it wouldn’t do it justice. Lets just say that if Fellini, Caro and Jeunet, the fella who made Crouching Tiger, the extreme sports channel, the Russian Olympic gymnastics team, Jean Paul Gaultier and Jacques Tati all got together to put on a stage show it would look just like La Nouba. Breathtaking is an over used description these days but unfortunately that's exactly what we were.

The finale

Camp-as-Christmas clown/acrobats

Killer thighs

this bit is wheely wheely great

So many things were happening at the same time that it was easy to forget that all the lovely music was actually live