And to make it better, Molly (aged 5) and myself (aged something) took a trip to Disney on Ice at the O2 arena yesterday.
We set off early to enjoy our girls day out and what should have been an easy train ride, did actually take half an hour longer because of planned engineering works, but never mind, it didn't dampen the mood at all.
We arrived at the O2 far too early, it was about 1pm and the show didn't actually start until 4. I thought Molly and I would go out for lunch but she wasn't hungry because she'd had a sandwich on the way to the station, so we mooched and came across the Sky TV area. We were invited in by very friendly staff and went upstairs to the "studio". We played putting ourselves in photos with famous people for a while, it was fun and no one was hurrying us along, so we pretty much smooched with everyone we could -
It was so much fun, and the we went into the new studio for Molly to read the important news about Cinderella turning up at Disney on Ice. She was a pro, a future career laid out in front of our eyes!
We were then asked if we were Sky customers, "er No" I replied to the lovely young lady with us, "well pretend you are" she said and put backstage stickers on our tickets. "Come back at 2pm and you can chill out at Skybackstage!"
So we went on to visit the British Music Experience, which is a sort of museum. I thought i'd educate Molly on all the stuff I listened to when I was younger, but she was really only interested in trying to find One Direction, but the exhibition wasn't that modern. So we walked around for a bit (it only cost us £2 each because of our Disney Tickets) and then stumbled across the "Dance the decades" studio. Molly chose the Locomotion, and after watching a short video of the computer generated girl doing the moves, we had a go. It was video'd and scanning our ticket afterwards has given us the chance to laugh at ourselves for hours on end from their website. Brilliant fun. A real Muso would love it there.
So now we were getting a little peckish but the queues for the restaurants were getting bigger and we still weren't massively hungry, so we opted for a takeaway hotdog eaten on a bench. Great for on the go food, and perfect timing for our Skybackstage "party"
We headed back to Sky and once again we welcomed with open arms. Ok, so it wasn't really a big party, there was a long queue for face-painting but frankly that was a good waste of time because Sofia the First was playing on the floor to ceiling screen whilst we were queuing. So Molly got her face painted and then her photo taken against the Sky backdrop. A fantastic bar, if we were going to sit down and have a drink, and definitely worth a visit with grownups lol!
And then on to the show. We had fab tickets. Row K, block 110 and an excellent view of the ice. It was cold, but then its an ice show, what do you expect!! Didn't stop Molly having an ice cream though, but old mummy opted for a coffee.
The show itself was nothing less than spectactular. Pure Disney genius, with a lot of glam, sparkle, music and dance. You almost forget that on top of the amazing show, they are actually on ice and the skating itself was awesome. We saw Princess Tiana, Cinderella, Snow White and the main part of the show was Rapunzle, with characters so true to their movie characters, including Maximus, who was great on the ice too. The show was over by 6pm and we found it easy to get out and get to the station without too much of a squeeze.
The O2 is a great venue, if you've not been before and have something booked, I recommend taking more time out to mooch around and get something to eat. And to top our fantastic day off, Molly's wobbly tooth came out on the train home.
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