Today was a really special day....I took my goddaughter Amy to see the Cinderella pantomime at the Lyceum in Sheffield. I have always loved going to a panto as a kid so have been waiting for Amy to be old enough to take her and have an excuse to go! Amy is now 4 and this was my Christmas present to her...a girly day out with Aunty Katy and Cinderella! We had decided before Christmas that sparkly outfits were the way forward but she outdid me her pink tiara and sparkly pink shoes! She looked gorgeous and was so excited that we must have looked a right pair as we skipped our way up the road to catch the bus into town!
This was the first time Amy had been to a pantomime so it was truly magical to watch it with her, she was mesmerised from the start and I think we were both transported to another world. When Cinderella changed into her ballgown Amy could be heard to whisper under her breath, "she's soooo beautiful" to no-one in particular! The first half ended with Cinderella going to the ball in her own sparkly coach driven by a coachman and two white shetland ponies...I felt quite emotional as the curtain came down on the first act! You can't go to the theatre and not have ice-cream at the interval so we had fun eating ice-cream and dreaming of being Cinderella.
The second act was as special as the first and Amy seemed to be a little more vocal, shouting out at anyone who dared try to press the button which Buttons had asked us all to watch! Lucy & Kevin (Amy's parents) had told her all about the "it's behind you" and "oh yes it is..." lines so when that came up she was loving it and giggling when Baron Hardup blew raspberries in Old MacDonald. She talked about it all the way home and couldn't eat her tea becase she was so busy telling Kevin and Lucy all about it! It was a really special day and something I will treasure always.
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