100 Years of Magic...but no Tinkerbell????

Growing up, Sunday night was for the Wonderful World of Disney. Baths were done, jammies were on and we would gather in the floor glued to that old black and white TV waiting for Tinkerbell to wave her magic wand and Jiminy Cricket to sing When You Wish Upon a Star. It was a magical moment week after week, month after month, year after year. So you can imagine my excitement when I found out we were going to go to Disney's on Ice 100 Years of Magic. Wow. I couldn't wait. Only three of the grandchildren went and they were mesmerized the whole time.

In true Disney fashion, Micky and Minnie skated out to kick off the event. I just love Mickey. Always have, always will.

Aladdin was next. Then Belle came out and things were going good until the scary music kicked in, smoke rolled and The Beast came out. That was it for Shelby. She scampered on my lap and spent most of the rest of the program on either my lap or her Mommy's. Any time some of the "evil" looking characters skated out, binky went in and blankie became a blindfold and she wouldn't watch.

They had the most beautiful Pocahontas I have ever seen and they did my favorite song "Can you paint with all the colors of the wind" ...(not sure of the correct title)

This part of the program was nothing short of brilliant. The toy army men from Toy Story were completely painted with a green paint that made them look plastic. There was nothing on them that wasn't green plastic looking. Even the blades on the skates, their faces, hands. Everything. And they marched and posed as if they were really toy army men.

I don't think Alexis moved the entire time. She was on the edge of her seat during the whole thing except intermission. I think she was truly envisioning a land far, far away.

They even had It's a Small World as part of one of the acts.

Caleb was having a ball. He really enjoyed the Toy Story portion of the program. Especially Woody and Alexis loved Jessi from Toy Story.

They had an awesome grand finale complete with fireworks, but the dude in front of us decided to stand up and stretch and gather his families things while I was trying to take pics so I didn't get the grand finale. People like that just kill me. If you are not going to stay for the whole thing, leave before it gets to the big moment so you don't block others.

When we got back to the car, we were putting coats in the back and getting the girls costumes off and Shelby must have decided she was done. Guess all the excitement was a little much for her and she was ready to get in the car.

As we were driving off, the kids were talking about their favorite parts and about the characters they expected that weren't there. I must say I was totally amazed that they would put on a Disney production entitled 100 Years of Magic and not have Tinkerbell make one single appearance. I was very disappointed and the more I thought about it, the more I thought Disney? 100 Years? No Tink? What in the world were they thinking?