Disney on Ice–Frozen

Last summer we took our daughter to watch Disney on ice in Austin. This year took her to Disney on ice frozen, only catch this time it was not in Cedar Park but Alamodome, San Antonio.

This time around it was a bit challenging and needed some prior planning as we now have our puppy Daisy with us, I was on the fence for a long time but thanks to Sandhya, we just decided to wing it.

I remember getting the email back in January itself, they had a total of 8 shows over a weekend (Thursday to Sunday) and by the time we made up our minds all that was left for us was Thursday, rest all were sold out, atleast that's what it said on ticketmaster.com. Our show on Thursday night, barring a few open seats here and there was pretty full.

This was our first event at Alamodome and boy was I impressed by the scale of things. In my mind I kept thinking, 78 miles door-to-door and would need an hour and half for drive and park and get in so should not need more than 2 hours. But the scale of Alamodome is quite a few times higher than our cedar park center, so I should have added an extra hour to make the whole thing more seamless. San Antonio police were stationed to guide the traffic and parking and were doing it very diligently and the staff at Alamodome were quick and efficient too.

Now to the show itself, I had wondered last time itself as to where does Disney find such wonderful ice skaters for its shows. One theory I have is that Disney recruits all the Olympics figure skating rejects for its “on ice” show. Unlike last time which was about a mix of princesses stories, this one specifically was musical story of frozen. It was so well done that Avni who is a big fan of Frozen (dressed up as Elsa but without the wig) barely asked any questions through out the event. I doubt if she even blinked her eyes.

As with anything Disney, it was colorful, energetic, executed to perfection and full of theatrics and special effects.

Most every little girl was dressed up to be Elsa and very few were Anna costumes. Some had taken an extra step to get a blonde hair wigs. One of the attendees I spoke to said, “she felt she had come to Elsa heaven”. 

Door to door it was a total of 6 and half hours venture and well worth it. I forgot to mention, as with everything Disney it's not cheap.