Disney on Ice

We were so excited at the idea of taking Lily to Disney on Ice on Friday morning! Of course, if you saw the last blog entry, you know she was a very sick little girl on Thursday night/Friday morning, so we weren't sure if we would go or not. However, when she woke up on Friday, she seemed pretty much normal, other than she wasn't very hungry. We decided to go ahead to the show because we thought that would be a fun little family activity.

This particular Disney on Ice was going to feature Cars, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King and Tinkerbell. We had let Lily watch Cars and The Little Mermaid earlier in the week so she would be a little more familiar with them when they came out. All the way there, she was so excited ("bo boy!" was said many times), and she thought Phillips Arena was pretty neat. We got to our seats, the lights dim and out come Mickey and Minnie; what an excited little girl we had! Of course, she was thrilled when Donald Duck and Goofy came out a minute later. She thought this was great. And then the other shows begin; she wasn't such a fan. She wanted Mickey and Minnie to come back, and then she started saying "out" and pointing to the door. She seemed to enjoy the quieter moments when they were singing, but when they were talking or it got really loud, she really wanted to go. We think a big part of this was the lack of sleep she had from the night before; she had missed out on almost 5 hours of sleep! We decided to leave at intermission because we knew she wouldn't have any idea who Tinkerbell was, and you could see in her eyes that she wanted to go to sleep. Sure enough, we got home and she slept for just over three hours, poor thing. So, it didn't go quiet as well as we had hoped, but it was still enjoyable; I'm sure there will be many more of these in our future!

I put a few pictures from the event below. The first is Lily and me waiting on the show to begin; she was munching on a few saltines to help her tummy. The second is during The Lion King, and the last one is during the best part: Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy (he was on another part of the ice at the moment).