Boo's Mommy
10-28-2006, 09:39 PM
I have a long trip report in the works and plan to post (10-22 through 10-26), but I just couldn't get this one out of my mind first...
We finally had a chance to try the Princess Faire on Wednesday 10/25. It was pretty packed for mid-week. My daughter is a princess fanatic and since she's 3, she nothing really bothers her and she enjoys most anything.
The major gripe i have is that there are a lot of mothers (and some fathers) that just stay in the "pit" area where all the little princes and princesses are supposed to be for their training. These parents would stay in the front even and there were many kids (mine included) that obviously couldn't see past them!! My poor daughter couldn't see a thing and wanted me to carry her. So I brought her over to the far side and only the older girls were in front, but still she was able to see for a bit. That was fine until these 2 mothers (sisters or friends perhaps) both pushed their daughters who were twice the height of mine right in front of her (because there was a 2 foot space between my daughter and the girls she originally stood behind).
I said "excuse me, but my daughter can't see now, can't they stand behind her?" They both just glared at me and walked away! during all the dance steps, she just kept getting pushed aside by all the bigger girls. i wanted to take her to the coloring area so she can at least watch from above and see, but we were told to move by a cm. we tried just sitting in the benches, but parents kept standing in the way, so i had her stand on a bench and we were told she can't do that by a cm. At that point, i had enough and told the cm, that she can't even see anything what was i supposed to do? The cm said for her to go down to the "pit" area. I wasn't about to go another round, so we finally left. At least she was happy she got a paper crown.
It was like total chaos there!
It definitely will not be something we'll try again.
We finally had a chance to try the Princess Faire on Wednesday 10/25. It was pretty packed for mid-week. My daughter is a princess fanatic and since she's 3, she nothing really bothers her and she enjoys most anything.
The major gripe i have is that there are a lot of mothers (and some fathers) that just stay in the "pit" area where all the little princes and princesses are supposed to be for their training. These parents would stay in the front even and there were many kids (mine included) that obviously couldn't see past them!! My poor daughter couldn't see a thing and wanted me to carry her. So I brought her over to the far side and only the older girls were in front, but still she was able to see for a bit. That was fine until these 2 mothers (sisters or friends perhaps) both pushed their daughters who were twice the height of mine right in front of her (because there was a 2 foot space between my daughter and the girls she originally stood behind).
I said "excuse me, but my daughter can't see now, can't they stand behind her?" They both just glared at me and walked away! during all the dance steps, she just kept getting pushed aside by all the bigger girls. i wanted to take her to the coloring area so she can at least watch from above and see, but we were told to move by a cm. we tried just sitting in the benches, but parents kept standing in the way, so i had her stand on a bench and we were told she can't do that by a cm. At that point, i had enough and told the cm, that she can't even see anything what was i supposed to do? The cm said for her to go down to the "pit" area. I wasn't about to go another round, so we finally left. At least she was happy she got a paper crown.
It was like total chaos there!
It definitely will not be something we'll try again.