Beauty and the Beast

A couple of months ago:

"Would you want to go see Beauty and the Beast in Des Moines?"  -Mom

"Is that a real question?!"  -Me

This weekend was it!  It has ALWAYS been my dream to see this show!  It was Momma, Alex, and I.  We headed to Des Moines on Saturday afternoon.  Momma made me drive.  I hate driving in Des Moines, and it was hard to find our hotel with all the one ways and such.  We finally found it, got moved into our room, and hung out until it was time to get ready for the show.  At one point, Alex wanted a snack and we ventured onto every floor in attempt of finding a vending machine.  No such luck, but I had a great time running around the halls and trying to beat Alex to the elevator buttons!

All week long you would have thought I was actually going to Broadway instead of to the Civic Center.  

"I gotta get dressed up for Broadway!"

"It's BROADWAY!"

Seriously, those words came out of my mouth more than once, especially yesterday.  All of us got gussied up and headed out to supper.  We tried to go to The Old Spaghetti Works, but the wait was so long that we would have chanced missing the opening.  THAT was not going to happen!  We ended up going to Legends and for dessert, we split a wonderful Snickers pie/cheesecake thing!  :)  FINALLY it was time to go!  :)  We got in and found our seats.  The whole time I was searching for Lu-Bird and her family.

The first half of the show was sooooooooo  good!  I can hardly describe it!  I loved everything about it!  I was a little surprised at how closely it followed the actually movie and I caught myself quoting so many times!  :)

At Intermission, I found Lu and Val and we giggled and laughed, hugged and smiled until it was time to go back.  I got myself a medium sized snow globe!!  Love it!  :)

The second half was just as good!  At one point, I was close to tears I was that into the show!  It was so stinkin' good!  I absolutely loved everything about it!  Alex and Momma both loved it too!  After the show, we met up with the Lindaman's and took some pictures!

While we were waiting for our hotel driver, we even saw a couple of the actors as they took pictures with their names on the sign.  Such a cool experience!  I honestly loved every minute of it!  :)

Alex had been begging to go on the Skywalk quite literally the WHOLE time.  Momma promised that I would take her on Sunday.  After breakfast, we went on the Skywalk-just me and her.  At breakfast I joked about pretending to spit on the cars as they drove under, just to be funny.  She took me quite literally and so there we stood "spitting" on cars as they drove below!  :)  We wandered through the Skywalk for a while and laughed about getting lost and wandering around an empty mall.

Alex had also been begging to play War the whole weekend.  Finally we played.  I won!  :)  We also got Momma in on the action and my butt got kicked first, closely followed by Alex's.

On the way home, we played the Alphabet Game as we had on the drive up.  I won!  Believe me-it is so hard to find things once you leave Pleasant Hill!  Especially a "Q!"

What a wonderful, beautiful, carefree weekend with some lovely ladies!  :)