Finding Nemo...On Ice
I'm feeling the need to square my shoulders and get ready for week ahead of me. I had a delightful two hour nap this afternoon and I'm hoping that it will make up for some of the deficiencies of the coming week. I had a dreadful time staying awake last week both at work & at school. I especially struggled on Tuesday & Wednesday nights so on Thursday I had some Mountain Dew on my way to school to try to combat the sleepiness. I guess it worked because I didn't have near the problems that evening.
Late Friday afternoon, I suddenly remembered that Disney's Finding Nemo On Ice was going to be in Nashville this weekend so I called Kris to see if she was interested in going. We had talked about it several weeks back and decided to go but hadn't really discussed it since then. After a bit of phone tag, I got ahold of Kris and we decided that, if we could get tickets, we would go.
I got home around 5:15 and Kris got home around 5:30. We quickly got ready and left the house at 5:45 for a 7:00 show. We knew we were cutting it close timewise. We weren't 100% sure of exactly how to get to the Gaylord Entertainment Center but had been there last year for a Women of Faith conference so we knew the general area. The main concern was where we would park. Well, as luck would have it, we ran right into a traffic jam. It cost us some more of our precious time and we arrived right at 7:00. With the circumstances of the lateness & unfamiliarity with the area not being in our favor, we just parked in the rip-off $10 parking right next to the GEC.
It's so aggravating!! You find the cost of the tickets and think, "Hmm...not too bad", then you go to purchase the tickets and they hit you up with about $7 per ticket of convenience fees and, by this time, you've committed yourself emotionally to see the show so you bite the bullet and pay the convenience fees. Then you arrive and you've already invested so much in the tickets that you can't let a mere $10 parking fee turn you away, so you pay it. What starts out as a $15 show can more than double in price. And the poor parents...they get hit with all sorts of vendors and how can you deny the children the things that they desire?
Kris & I had wanted to take Hannah, the 4 year-old that mom babysits, to the show but she was already planning to go to her grandmother's place for the weekend. It may have been a good thing because I'm not sure how she would have reacted to all of the vendors. And I'm not sure how we would have reacted to her begging if it had come to that. I mean, it's not like we are used to having to say "No" to little children.
Anyway, it was worth going to see the show. It was really a neat show. They had black lights in the ceiling so it made the neon on the skaters and props really neon. It had a nifty effect on the crowd too. I've never been to any of the "on ice" shows and so I didn't really know what to expect. I'm always amazed how a whole show, that in a movie takes many sets and locations, can take place in such a small area. Nifty!!
Late Friday afternoon, I suddenly remembered that Disney's Finding Nemo On Ice was going to be in Nashville this weekend so I called Kris to see if she was interested in going. We had talked about it several weeks back and decided to go but hadn't really discussed it since then. After a bit of phone tag, I got ahold of Kris and we decided that, if we could get tickets, we would go.
I got home around 5:15 and Kris got home around 5:30. We quickly got ready and left the house at 5:45 for a 7:00 show. We knew we were cutting it close timewise. We weren't 100% sure of exactly how to get to the Gaylord Entertainment Center but had been there last year for a Women of Faith conference so we knew the general area. The main concern was where we would park. Well, as luck would have it, we ran right into a traffic jam. It cost us some more of our precious time and we arrived right at 7:00. With the circumstances of the lateness & unfamiliarity with the area not being in our favor, we just parked in the rip-off $10 parking right next to the GEC.
It's so aggravating!! You find the cost of the tickets and think, "Hmm...not too bad", then you go to purchase the tickets and they hit you up with about $7 per ticket of convenience fees and, by this time, you've committed yourself emotionally to see the show so you bite the bullet and pay the convenience fees. Then you arrive and you've already invested so much in the tickets that you can't let a mere $10 parking fee turn you away, so you pay it. What starts out as a $15 show can more than double in price. And the poor parents...they get hit with all sorts of vendors and how can you deny the children the things that they desire?
Kris & I had wanted to take Hannah, the 4 year-old that mom babysits, to the show but she was already planning to go to her grandmother's place for the weekend. It may have been a good thing because I'm not sure how she would have reacted to all of the vendors. And I'm not sure how we would have reacted to her begging if it had come to that. I mean, it's not like we are used to having to say "No" to little children.
Anyway, it was worth going to see the show. It was really a neat show. They had black lights in the ceiling so it made the neon on the skaters and props really neon. It had a nifty effect on the crowd too. I've never been to any of the "on ice" shows and so I didn't really know what to expect. I'm always amazed how a whole show, that in a movie takes many sets and locations, can take place in such a small area. Nifty!!
posted by Sharon @ 9:45 PM
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