Disney On Ice (Instead of Halloween)

Halloween 2010 kind of got rail roaded by other events this year. Yesterday I was racing down in Kent in the gymathlon and then today we managed to get tickets to the Disney On Ice in the O2 Arena (thanks to little bro). So for the first year ever there was no trick or treating for the boys. We did manage to sort of dress them up for nursery on Friday though. Brandon still does not do scary, so he went dressed as Roary The Racing Car.

Joshua is starting to come around to the scary stuff and this year has braved his first mask. He gets a real kick out of chasing me around and making me jump with his "Raaar's".

Joshua also has a Roary costume and here are some pics of both boys with the matching fancy dress.

So Halloween will be postponed until next week and we will celebrate it jointly with Bonfire night instead. As mentioned previously, today we had a blinding trip to the O2 Arena (a first for both boys). Here they are posing outside.

Rather than join the regular queue to enter the Arena we went into the Sky Backstage Lounge (as an existing customer). This was actually pretty cool ad gave us some fun activities to pass the time before the Disney On Ice show commenced. To start with we all donned the 3D glasses and watched some spectacular 3D TV. I have to say I was extremely impressed with the quality after having previously been very negatice about this technology. How good does Brandon looks in the specs?

Here is a happy little chap - he has food in his hand. And how cool are the glowing cube seats?

Another great part of the Sky lounge is that you can watch yourself on 3D TV whilst performing in a band. The guitar and drums were just too tempting for Josh, so in we went! To start with Joshua demonstrated his solo skills by ripping a few tunes whilst me, Mummy and Brandon watched him on the 3D TV (very funny).

Brandon then built up the confidence to have a go and so we had a 3 way drum session with me doing the base pedal and the boys with a stick each.

Eventually we managed to get to our seats in the Arena and both boys were extremely well behaved and completely mesmerised by the Disney show. The loved seeing all the characters that they recognise from books, TV and toys and to see them in real life definitely caught their attention. Here is Mickey, Minnie and Donald.

The genie from Aladdin going airborne.

And where did all those genies come from?

Big Bruce from Nemo chasing Dora and Nemo around the ice.

Probably my favourite part - the toy soldiers from Toy Story. Excellent bit of steriotypical US boot camp type music to accompany their routine.

And then the moment the boys had been waiting for. Their current hero's, Buzz and Woody. Brandon was most upset that Woody took his hat off and kept on and on repeating "hat on".

It might be a little hard to see in the picture, but look closely enough and you will see Mickey in the hot air balloon.

Mickey, Minnie and the marching band.....M.....I.....C.....K....E.....Y.....................M....O....U....S.....E, that song will be stuck in my head for the rest of the week now.

The Incredibles...........Joshua has never seen these but I have read him the book a few times. Oddly he has started to show an interest in Monsters Inc over the last 2 weeks and for some strange reason gets them completely confused with the Incredibles.

And finally Simba from the Lion King doing some acrobatics.

Both boys were completely exhausted after a long day out with a lot of walking and a lot of visual stimulation. Brandon is so tired that we have even managed to set him down in his Lightning McQueen bed instead of the cot tonight. Quite amazing if he stays there all night. I don't think we got Joshua into his proper bed until he was gone 2 years old.