Let's play a game... Who can spot Isabel from the crowd?

We saw from the news paper that some of the characters of the new movie "Ice Age 2-Meltdown" are coming to the mall near our place, so I thought it should be interesting to let Isabel be part of the screaming audience in front of the live performance by a bunch of people in animal suit.

Isabel has seen the previous movie, she was pretty excited, kept saying "The squirrel very funny hor? Knock knock on the ice...ha ha ha."

I got her settled down 40 minutes early, so for 40 minutes she keeps looking at me asking me "Why the show haven't start?"

But when the show finally starts, she covered her ears with her hands because she was near the stage, which means she was also near the pair of 6 feet high speakers that's blasting decibels so high it makes her ears ring.

I noticed she didn't smile throughout the whole show, just watch the older kids participating in games on stage to win movie merchandise. Same old game they play in every road show... music starts, kids starts dancing, music stops, kids freeze. The host will try ways to make them laugh or move. And the last kids on the stage is always the one who doesn't know when the game is over. He'll just freeze there period.

The star of the show hopped on to the stage and moved to the rhythm of Vanilla Ice's old hits "Ice Ice Baby". But the person in the squirrel suit seems to have 2 left feet, doesn't know whether to put down the giant nut and dance or hold it as a prop.

After the show, there's a photo session with the over-sized prehistoric mammal for the first 30 person who can present a receipt of $30 spent in the mall on that day. I wrestled and elbowed a bunch of aunties to obtained the 5th position in the queue, then beckoned Isabel to come. But the 3 year old started crying and kicking, pulling me away from the queue, simply refused to go up the stage.

I guess she's just not ready for this.