This afternoon Tom and I took our six year old nephew to see Disney on Ice, Monsters Inc.
We pick him up at 11:30, get in the car, smell dog poop, find the poopie sneaker, clean it and head to lunch. But he doesn’t want to go to lunch. He wants to see Monsters Inc. According to him no one said anything about going to lunch. Oh well kid, I’m hungry. We take him to Jillians which at first glance is not a kid friendly restaurant. And this was apparent by our nephew’s shy demeanor. He ordered a salad with Italian dressing and a cheese pizza. That’s when I gave Tom the high sign and off they went. You see, little did the little guy know Jillians has an arcade, a huge arcade, on the bottom level. As he told his grandma when we got home, he nearly fainted when he saw all those games. The food arrived, he ate like a champ and we were off to see the show. Of course not without a couple, can we go back downstairs and play more games? Not today, but we promised him we would be back.
I can’t say the show kept our attention the entire time, but it was enjoyable nonetheless. During the second half the little guy stayed busy with a ten dollar Icee. Yup ten dollars to get ice in a Monsters Inc. cup. When I handed him the empty cup to take home as a souvenir he wanted nothing to do with it. Said he had finished the Icee. I suggested he could put other drinks in it. Um, no thanks. Silly Aunt Liz. On the ride home he reported to us the speed the car was going at every moment by reading our digital speedometer.
Needless to say Tom and I took a very long nap when we got home.