Disney on Ice - Passport to Adventure! A Twin Cities Give Away!

Embark on the ultimate sightseeing holiday with all your favorite Disney characters in 

Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure.  

Join Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy and Daisy on a journey to the magical worlds of Disney’s The Lion King , The Little Mermaid , Peter Pan and Lilo & Stitch .  

 You’ll explore the Pride Lands with Simba, Timon and Pumbaa; voyage under the sea with Ariel and all her aquatic friends; tour London with Peter Pan and Wendy, before flying to Never Land; and travel to Hawaii to visit Lilo and Stitch.  Upbeat music, loveable characters and exciting destinations make Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure a holiday you’ll never forget.

Opening night tickets are just $11- No discount code needed! 

For more information, check out the Disney on Ice website HERE! 

I love these shows for the young and young at heart!

That's why I'm super excited to be giving away a family four pack of tickets!

Stay tuned for the give away, coming later this week!

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*** As a Feld Family Activator - My family will be attending this show in exchange for hosting a give away for Disney on Ice - Passport to Adventure. ***

There's one hundred and four days, in summer vacation....It's Phineas & Ferb - LIVE!

Do your kids love Phineas & Ferb as much as mine do?

Well, great news!!

 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! 

DISNEY’S PHINEAS AND FERB: 

THE BEST LIVE TOUR EVER!

COMING TO XCEL ENERGY CENTER ON OCTOBER 21

(Minneapolis, MN)—

“Mom!  Phineas and Ferb are going on a LIVE tour!!!”  School‘s no longer out for summer but anything is possible as Phineas and Ferb create their biggest invention yet -- Disney’s Phineas and Ferb: The Best LIVE Tour Ever!  Phineas, Ferb, and the whole tri-state area gang embark on a bold escape jumping out from behind your TV and onto the stage in a live action adventure – right in the Twin Cities!
Audiences will be whisked on a wild ride as Phineas and Ferb build their way to another over the top, extraordinary adventure. And, before anyone can wonder, “Hey, where’s Perry?” the beloved pet platypus shifts to his secret double life as Agent P to foil another one of Dr. Doofenshmirtz’s evil plans.  Musical madness abounds in an escapade so awesome that even Candace can’t help but join the hilarious hijinks.  It’s the ultimate end to summer vacation, so seize the day ‘cause Phineas and Ferb are gonna do it all!

From Feld Entertainment®, the producers of Disney On Ice, families can experience the witty humor and upbeat music of the hit Disney Channel series live at Xcel Energy Center, October 21 with two performances.  

Tickets are currently on sale via Ticketmaster, Ticketmaster.com, phone at 1-800-745-300 or the Xcel box office.
Ticket Prices: $56, $42, $26, $22 and $18
Show Times: Sunday, October 21 and 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.

And, 

Gust Gab Readers can save $5* on advance tickets with the code MOMMY.     

* Discount valid on the Sunday, October 21 @ 4 p.m. performance only.   Discount valid on $26 and $22 price tickets only.   Savings do not apply to front row or VIP seats.   Limit six (6) tickets per order.  No double discounts.   Offer subject to ticket availability.   Additional fee’s may apply.    

3 Easy Ways to redeem the Savings:  In person at the Xcel Box office, Call Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000 and mention code MOMMY or via Ticketmaster.com and ender code MOMMY.   

For more information, visit www.PhineasAndFerbLive.com or visit us on Facebook and YouTube.

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Disney on Ice - Treasure Trove (Discount Tickets!)

Disney On Ice presents Treasure Trove

DISNEY ON ICE PRESENTS TREASURE TROVE

IS COMING TO SAINT PAUL'S XCEL ENERGY CENTER, DEC. 8-11, 2011

Discover endless riches when Disney On Ice presents Treasure Trove comes to town! 

Disney On Ice sets the gold standard with its newest skating spectacular.  Get tangled up in Disney’s 50^th animated feature with Rapunzel and Flynn and enter the worlds of your other favorite Disney princesses –Tiana, Cinderella, Jasmine, Ariel, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Mulan and of course, the one who started it all, Snow White.  Ahoy, Mateys!  Set sail with Peter Pan, the always sassy Tinker Bell and the cantankerous Captain Hook and his pirate pals on an adventure beyond Never Land!  Trek the wilds of Africa with Simba, Nala, Pumbaa and Timon as they discover the true meaning of the ‘Circle of Life.’  Tick-Tock!  Tick-Tock!  Don’t be late to a very important date with Alice and the Mad Hatter as they march with the Queen of Hearts’ Army Of Cards.  

Be sure to see this show full of memories guaranteed to last a lifetime.

Show Times: 

Thursday, Dec. 8 - 7 p.m.

 Friday, Dec. 9 - 10 a.m. & 7 p.m. 

Saturday, Dec. 10 - 11 a.m., 3 p.m. & 7 p.m. 

Sunday, Dec. 11 - 1 p.m. & 5 p.m.

AND...I'm pleased to share with you...

SHOW SAVINGS OPPORTUNITIES

4 tickets for $44 on select show!  A total savings of $20!   

Discount valid on all weekend evening performances (Friday 7 p.m. / Saturday 7 p.m. / Sunday 5 p.m.)   Offer in effect Monday, November 28 @ 10 a.m. through Wednesday, November 7 at 10 p.m.  

Offer Valid toward regularly-priced $16 tickets only, excludes VIP and Front Row Seats. Offer subject to ticket availability.  For best seats redeem as soon as possible. Valid on up to 12 discounted tickets. Not to be used in conjunction with any other discounts, premiums or rebates.

To Redeem:

Call 1-800-745-3000 Use code: MOM or online by clicking HERE!

with code: MOM.  (Offer subject to service and handling charges)

My family has had the opportunity to attend a few of these shows over the past few years and it NEVER disappoints.  The skating spectacular has proven to be something for all ages...and this time around, with the additional of Rapunzel? We are so VERY VERY excited!

Princess Wishes...

Disney on Ice came to town again - this time...to present PRINCESS WISHES!

Even with the Princess theme...I just knew our 4 year old son would have a great time...after all...Everyone's favorite M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!! was going to be there!


We met up with some friends downtown and navigated the journey that is the downtown Skyway System until we reached the Target Center...

The Show did not disappoint!
All of our favorites were there...Belle and the Beast...Ariel & Prince Erik

Snow White and the 7 Dwarves! (Who doesn't love THESE guys!!)

Aladdin and his Genie were on hand...

Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella...they were all there!!

While it WAS technically a Princess on Ice show...There was plenty of Fire Breathing Dragon action to keep the boys in the crowd entertained too!



I attempted to get a Project Me. Project You shot or two...THAT is always an adventure in and of itself!!

The hubs had been out of state traveling on business - and literally flew in just in time to take in the show...We scooped him up from the airport and away we went...(Thanks for the Awesome Family Date night honey!)

We were also able to enjoy the show with dear friends...


And meet (in real life!) blog readers who were lucky enough to win tickets courtesy of Feld Entertainment! So great to meet you all! What fun it was!!

A night of magical wishes to be sure!!


If you get the chance - this is a must see show for your entire family!!



*** A huge thank you to Feld Entertainment for allowing me to participate in a give away for my blog readers and for letting my family and I attend the show as well ***

I'm granting wishes!!

Well, sort of...

Technically the winning 'wish' said she was wishing for the weekend to be here now...I can't exactly grant that, but it's close enough right??

Without further ado...

The winner of my first family four pack of tickets give away to Disney on Ice - Princess Wishes is...

Didn't win?
Don't count yourself out just yet...

Hop on over to my Facebook page and leave a comment discussing your greatest family vacation:
- where you went
- where you WISH you went
- where you are WISHING to go
- what you WISH to do/that you could do

You can enter more than once...keep the conversation going!!
All comments will be entered to win another set of 4 tickets...winner to be drawn Thursday the 24th of February!

Also, visit fellow Feld Family Activator Sazzy Frazz's Blog and enter there for a shot at 4 tickets!

AND...after you've entered there...you can also visit The Coupon Sista for another place to enter to win!

Disney on Ice ~ Princess Wishes...A Give Away!

***** COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED AS A WINNER HAS BEEN SELECTED VIA RANDOM.ORG. Didn't win?

***** Click here for another shot! ****


Disney On Ice presents ~


Princess Wishes at the Target Center in Minneapolis next month!
March, 3 - 6, 2011

Show Schedule:
• Thursday, March 3 ~ 7:00 PM
• Friday, March 4 ~ 10:30 AM & 7:00 PM
• Saturday, March 5 ~ 11:00 AM, 3:00 PM, 7:00 PM
• Sunday, March 6 ~ 1:00 PM, 5:00 PM

And ticket prices start at just $10!

Awesome!

(Front Row $65 / VIP $42/ $20 / $15/ $10 )

Enter a world of wishes with your favorite Disney princesses in Disney On Ice presents Princess Wishes. Tinker Bell represents the magic of Disney, as she whisks you through a collection of enchanting and beloved Disney stories. Join Ariel as she yearns to explore the world above the waves. See Snow White find her one true love. Discover a whole new world with Jasmine. And, watch in wonder as the dreams of Cinderella, Belle, Aurora and Mulan all come true.

Be sure to see this magical show where believing is just the beginning!

*** Special bonus! Starting one hour before each performance, come enjoy the Disney Princess Pre-Show! A live Disney Princess presides over a fairy tale collection of gowns and treasures from the Disney Princess stories.
***Free to all ticket holders. ***

My kids are going to go C r A z Y! for this!
And yours will too!

You can get your own tickets by visiting Ticketmaster and ordering today!
Use the code FRIEND when ordering and save yourself a few bucks!

Or...you can enter to win them!
That's right!! Thanks to the awesome folks at Feld Entertainment, I have a family four pack of tickets to Princess Wishes on Opening Night! March 3rd, 2011 at the Target Center!

How do you enter?
Easy Peasy!

* Leave a comment here telling me something that you wish for...a good hair day, a raise at your job, your kid to take a nap for more than 20 minutes, winning the powerballl - Anything - Give me your wish...you can come back once per day and tell me what you are wishing/hoping for that day...if you wish for the same thing over and over - that's fine - one comment per day per person...
** Are you a fan of Gust Gab on Facebook? BONUS ENTRY! (Please leave a comment here telling me that you are...)

Comments will be open until noon on Thursday February 17th - at which time one winner will be chosen via random.org ~
Good Luck!

***** COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED AS A WINNER HAS BEEN SELECTED VIA RANDOM.ORG.

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He knows when you are sleeping...

He knows when you're awake...


Though I don't think he would have minded if you stayed up a little bit later just this one time...


Click on over & see where my little man fell asleep THIS TIME!
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This weekend, my family had the wonderful privilege of taking in Opening Night of a production of Feld Entertainment's Disney on Ice - Mickey & Minnie's Magical Journey.


As a Feld Family Activator, we also had the delightful opportunity to meet a couple of VERY special folks before the show!

I was SURE my kids would go NUTS - because after all -
This was Mickey and Minnie MOUSE!

Every time the kids ask for a Happy Meal, I ask them if they'd rather have a Happy Meal, or $5 (each) towards their Disney Fund for our next big family vacation...


Disney Fund ALWAYS wins.
Always!
As you can see from the picture below - D was NOT having any of this special meet & greet...
(Even though when we were walking in to the Meet & Greet - he saw them & said 'Hey! I remember those guys!' - CUTEST THING EVER!!

Such a bummer...If they only knew how lucky they were right?

Regardless - they were both super excited for the show...Who wouldn't be!?!

But, about 15 minutes into the show ~ during his beloved Lion King...

We lost him...Fast asleep...lulled into never never land by the music of Disney...

This one however, she ate it up! She was laughing and clapping and smiling and singing...

Easily her favorite was the Peter Pan act...She LOVED seeing them fly...I know Buddy would have loved it too - had be been AWAKE for it! This was THE Disney on Ice show for both girls AND boys...Mickey and Minnie Mouse, The Lion King, Lilo & Stitch, Peter Pan...

I was so tempted to purchase tickets for just he and I and take him to an afternoon show while it was still in town, but...Minnesota weather didn't cooperate too much this weekend for doing much of anything -

A couple of feet of fresh snow will do that I suppose -

A great night out with my not-so-little girl though -

I think he's over it, having woken up just in time to wave goodbye to the cast of characters...

Although he is adamant that Peter Pan was NOT there...Poor Kid...

Next time Buddy - Next time...

If you have a chance to take in Disney on Ice ~ Mickey & Minnie's Magical Journey - Do it!

It was a great family outing - even is someone did sleep through most of it...

Regardless - These are the events that dreams memories are made of -

Monster Jam 2010 -

This weekend had our family taking in our first ever MONSTER JAM Monster Truck show!
We were soo looking forward to this, as our 3 year old loves everything truck - and we thought - what a fun family day out...

I'd be lying if I said it went smoothly though... by stopping at Subway before hand, we were able to secure free pit passes for the afternoon - a chance to get up close and personal with the drivers and the trucks...

See this ticket booth here? You'll see only 2 windows open? (Notice the snow too - our first snowfall of the year, wet, thick, branch & limb snapping, power outage, cold snowfall)

So we show up for the pit party, passes in hand - but because our tickets were at Will Call - we were denied admission. We would need to pick up our tickets for the evening event & present them at the same time.

ok.

Will call tickets...no big deal...EXCEPT...they were NOT AVAILABLE at the only 2 ticket windows open. For some reason, they were available on the exact opposite side of the Metrodome only...So, in our sopping wet clothes, half dragging, half carrying our two pre-k kids around the outside of the Metrodome in the not-so-fantastic weather...

We *finally* got our hands on our tickets...
Only to find out - with many other angry families - that we could not enter the Metrodome on that side...
We would need to haul it all the way around to the opposite side of the Metrodome again to gain admission to the building and the pit party.

Seriously.

You might not think that is such a big deal - but it's a long way around the OUTSIDE of the Metrodome, in the not-so-great-weather...with young kids.

By the time we got in - we all had wet shoes/socks/clothes...

Hair and make up...forget about it...

And I was all but ready to go home...

When we finally got inside, we hesitated to join the pit party...because with wet shoes/socks/pant legs, etc - We were imaging just how dirty we'd get by walking around on the dirt that was the pit party...

But...we're here - let's do this!

It was fun for the kids to get up close to the trucks - I worried that H would be a little scared of the show once it got going, if it were too loud, etc (She wasn't & in fact had a GREAT time!)

Her favorite was the Mohawk Warrior - She loved that the truck had a Mohawk and the driver, a crazy matching one -

The Vendors started early for this event - and were busy peddling their $15 Cotton Candy & $10 Snow Cone. I don't know that I'll ever understand the pricing behind the concessions.

Wouldn't it be better to sell TWO snow cones for $10 - then not sell any at all to cheap frugal families like us who have a hard time paying the $10 for one?

There was a lot to do at the pit party - including a dirt hill for kids to play in (but not our wet kids!) and remote control car demos, bounce houses, live music and more...The lines for autographs and photos with the Monster Trucks & Drivers were all pretty long...but there were some VERY happy campers meeting the drivers & taking pictures!

So...The Pit Party ended at 5 - and the show wasn't set to begin until 7:30 - Our initial plan was to leave and have dinner across the street - only, there was no re admittance...

(Yikes! I had NO IDEA this was going to be an 8 hour non-stop event for our littles - without dinner!)

They did REMARKABLE & were soo FANTASTIC!

I wonder if it had anything to do with the $15 Cotton Candy & $10 Snow Cone we sprung for?

There was some fun & exciting entertainment to help pass the time before the Big Show started...

The trucks were all lined up and ready to go - I have to say, I think my favorite part was when all ten trucks revved up their engines and did some hot laps around the track for the start of the show - what a rush!

And after Lee Greenwood's Proud to be an American & a cool presentation with the American Flag -the real excitement began...

And let me tell you - Minneapolis loves Grave Digger! The crowd was almost as loud as the roar of this truck! Which was soo. loud!

The real fun happened later in the night - (I'm so glad we stayed!)

The dare devils on their 4 wheelers (Quads for you City Folks) were pretty awesome - let's hope our boy doesn't get any ideas! WOW! The air these two were getting! He told me several times throughout the night that when he's a Daddy he's going to have lots of Monster Trucks - I hope he means of the Matchbox Variety - or maybe Remote Control???

The REAL fun was the Freestyle event...I don't know how much it costs to maintain these things but they beat the hell out of them! And it was pretty awesome to watch!

The show itself was over 3 hours long and the kids had a GREAT time - We used ear plugs tucked under head phones and neither kid thought it was too loud - even though at times I thought I myself might be going deaf! HA HA!

Monster Jam is returning to the Metrodome in January...

I think it's a must for the adventure/truck lover to attend...There's some pretty cool footage on the MonsterJam.com website to see too -

Now that we know how it all works - ie: pick up your tix at Will Call ahead of time before you drag your family through over the river and through the woods, eat something before hand as the no re admittance leaves you with no choices but to spend concession prices, and that headphones are a definite must...

We'll be better prepared to have an even greater experience next time!

*** A huge thank you to Feld Entertainment who provided our family with tickets as a thank you for being a Feld Family Activator ***