Musicals and School Shoes

Drama Teen is at an all day Stagecoach drama workshop, all this week. They are working on the hit musical High School Musical - she is over the moon :-) She would LOVE to be Sharpay. Unfortunately she didn't get the part she wanted, and isn't too pleased with the part she has got!! Hopefully she will still have fun with her friends and not let it bother her too much.
Once we'd dropped her off this morning, me and Little Prince set off into town to do the dreaded school shoe shopping. As like every other parent I know we were heading for Clark's. I thought that shopping this early in the holidays, we would avoid the crowds - well we only had to wait 15-20 minutes to be served, so it worked!! Little Prince had set his heart on the new YoToy shoes, and even decided he wanted an orange car inside the shoe! Once he had been measured the lady went away and came back with one pair of shoes!! They were too shallow and squished his feet!! He was almost in tears as she took them away, convinced that his chance of having the car shoes was gone, the lady had even shown him they had the orange car inside. But to (both of our!!) great delight - she found the right size and he is now the proud owner of smart black school 'Pit Stop' shoes that can hide a car inside!!

It doesn't work QUITE like the advert on tv though - the car has to be taken apart, the wheels removed and stowed inside the car before it can be hidden in the shoe!! And the wheels fall off remarkably easily!! I can see this becoming a tantrum hazard - when we lose the bits, or the bits fall off too easily whilst playing!! Oh well, for now he is a very happy little man. And as he isn't looking forward to going back to school, this is a breakthrough. If he was going back to his familiar nursery, he would be fine - its the worry of the unknown that bothers him.