At the Nutcracker

For over a year now my goddaughter has been fascinated with The Nutcracker Ballet (and dance in general).

She’s recently started dance classes and with the Nutcracker obsession still burning, I decided to send her and her best friend to the ballet as a Christmas gift.  She’s never been to the theater, and last summer was the first time she’s seen a dance show in person.

So this trip was going to be special. It was going to be at the gorgeous Segerstrom Center for the Arts and it was going to be her chance to see Clara and the Nutcracker in person.

We dressed the girls as “twins” for the day (they love dressing the same) and then us adults did too. It sure made finding each other easier in the crowds too!

And on the way to the theater, the girls were handed identically wrapped presents… they tore them open to discover that they each had a small wooden nutcracker of their own as a special souvenir of the day.

Nutcrackers in hand, we found our seats and as the performance began I could tell they were enthralled… the dancing was superb, and the performance was short enough to handle 4 year old attention spans while satisfying every desire of a child’s heart.

Afterwards, we were able to go out to the lobby and meet some of the characters (like the Sugar Plum Fairy and the flower princess)… and Santa too!

After we left, Giana declared that next year she wanted to go again… oh, and she wanted to go see the other shows they were having too like “Sleeping Beauty”!  I think the adventure was a success!