Today we took Owen on his first official big boy outing to Disney on Ice. After our friend, Shonna, reported to us that there was a long "Cars" segment during the show, we decided it would be worth a shot at seeing if Owen wass ready for such events! Shonna agreed to watch Max and Gavin and I put on our patience hats and headed to the show. Owen was dressed in his Cars sweatsuit and very excited to be seeing "Cars Disney" and eat popcorn.
The first thing we did after buying our tickets was head straight to the concession stand for popcorn. Who knew that with a purchase of popcorn you would also receive a Mator hat. Of course Owen only wore it for 30 seconds! Next, we found our seats. We sat for just a few minutes when Owen and I headed to the bathroom for the first time. After we returned, Gavin was going to hit up the concession stand for our treats, but Owen insisted on going, so we all got up again to go for another walk. When we returned to our seats we discovered that we had originally been in the wrong seats, therefore, we had to find new seats just a couple rows above. It realy didn't matter where we sat as the multiple rows behind us were basically empty. Owen sat for a few minutes before he decided the tall stairs leading up to the higher seats was just too appealing. So, he and Gavin headed up. This is when Owen decided he liked the view from up there better and settled in. I stayed in our original seats thinking that Owen would eventually come back down.
When the announcer told the audience that the show would begin within five minutes Owen decided to come back down by me. He sat in aw of the show for the first half hour. Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Goofy, and Donald did the opening act, which was followed by the "Cars" segment. They had Owen's attention from the moment the lights went down, but he was in complete heaven when the "Cars" characters began to come on stage. After the "Cars" segment was over, and after yet another trip to the bathroom, he again decided that the top seat would be the best place to sit, so this time we gathered all our belongings and headed up. This is where we sat for the remainder of the first half.
When intermission came we headed out to the lobby for a potty break and just a change of scenery, since the Zambodie wasn't really as exciting as Cailou on TV had shown Owen. While outside the Arena we had to stop at all the little vender's stands because Owen would spot a race car, or some shiny spining thing they were selling. We finally got him away from the third vender stand when he spotted a kids life size Lightning McQueen!! His first instinct was to run right to it, but we had to pull him away, because it was set up for picture taking. He of course cried and I had to explain to him that he would need to stand in line and wait his turn. Luckily for us the line only had one other person in it. He was so proud to get his picture with Lightning McQueen! When he was done we said it was time to go back and find our seats. He replied that he wanted to go see Max. Of course, this melted my heart, but I asked a few more times just to be sure and each time he replied that he wanted to go home. We were content with this, we thought he did pretty good for his first outing!
As we were leaving, the people at the door were concerned that he didn't have a good time. I was sure to correct them on that, and we happily headed to the car. About five feet away from the car he informed us that he wanted to go back to his seat. I lied and told him that the show was over and that everyone else was coming out too. He bought that story and willingly got in the car!
I would say that his first big boy outing was a success, although he told me tonight when he got in bed, that he didn't have fun, it was too loud!
