girls night - disney on ice

So last week was March Break and you know what that means, Disney on Ice was in town. Grandma Linda took Abby and I two years ago, but we skipped last year and did the Backyardigans Live instead since it was Highschool Musical on Ice and Abby has no idea what Highschool Musical is. Thankfully. This year it was 100 years of Disney, so Grandma Linda got the tickets to the Sunday afternoon performance and we agreed not to tell Abby we were going. Every time a commercial came onshe would ask if we could go and I'd tell her we'd have to see if it came to town.

Fast forward to Saturday, Grandma Linda called and asked Abby if she'd like to have a girl's day together on Sunday. Abby thought that was a great idea and maybe we could go to Wendy's for lunch. Cheap date, she is. So Sunday rolls around and we all head out, still not telling Abby where we were going. Whenever we go to an event at Copps Colleseum we park at Grandma Linda's employee lot a couple of blocks away. As soon as we pulled into the lot Abby remembered that we parked there when we went to hockey games and that the arena was near by. I asked her if she'd like to go for a walk and we headed towards Copps. As we got closer Abby started complaining about being cold. Grandma Linda suggested maybe we could pop into the arena to warm up for a minute.

When we got to the doors there was a security guard with a bullhorn telling the crowd that the middle doors were open and you needed tickets to get in. Now Abby is very much a rule follower and her eyes got very wide at this point as she whispered to me -- But Mom, we don't have tickets.

Grandma Linda told her we'd ask if maybe they'd just let us in for a minute. We stepped through the doors and waited in line, while Abby still whispered to me that we didn't have any tickets, even though the tickets were quite clearly in Grandma Linda's hands by now and we had made it past the ticket taker. Right in front of us was a guy selling programs, Abby was completely oblivious to him. We took the escalator down a level and walked to the booth where they were selling all the Disney cups and light up tiaras and such. As Abby stood right in front of it I asked her if she knew why we were there.

She shook her head -- No.

I was literally in tears by this point I was laughing so hard. How could she not know standing right in front of a booth stuffed full of Disney goodies?

We took her to buy a program and put it in her hands. Do you know why we're here now?

She shakes her head again -- No.

I think I could have peed my pants by this point. I could not stop laughing. Grandma Linda made her read the cover of the program.

Disney. On. Ice. Disney on Ice, DisneyOnIce!!

Finally!! And boy was she excited when she figured it out.



I guess the last time that we went Abby mentioned that it would be nice to sit closer, so this year we sat closer. A whole lot closer!!



Grandma Linda managed to score us second row seats. I will fully admit that even I was beyond excited about that. The characters were literally less that 10 feet away from us.



It was an absolute wonderful day! I am so thankful to Grandma Linda for the gift!

*check out all the pictures on flickr