I am going to divide this into more than 1 part, since there are lots of pictures.
We left to go to Des Moines in the early afternoon. By 4:30PM, we were in Des Moines and had checked into our hotel. We then went to the mall and had our delicious Cheescake Factory meal! (YUM!!) I don't have any pictures of the meal, but we were STUFFED when we got out of there. My aunt had the petite sirloin and broccoli, I had the fish tacos, and the kids had pasta. We then of course each had to have a piece of cheescake!! It was SO GOOD!! The 3 year old just attacked his cake; you know how large those slices are, and he ate 1/2 of it, all by himself!
I had visions of a sugar rush coming on!
We then checked back into our hotel, went swimming and then to bed. In the morning we had the hotel breakfast, packed up our room and we were on our way to Disney Live!
In true Disney fashion, they didn't miss an opportunity to do some marketing.
There was TONS of stuff here, and most of it was pretty pricey, but we were on a mini vacation, so didn't feel too bad about spending some money.
A Mickey spinner! Cool!
Here is Sadie modeling the Tigger hat that came with our cotton candy. We later figured out it was a hat and NOT a mask since there were no eye-holes cut. Duh!
So do you want to know the cost for 2 cotton candies (with foam Tigger hats) and a take-home water bottle with lemonade in it?? $30!!!
I kid you not! I about fell out of my shoes when I heard that. I guess it was because the cotton candy had that foam Tigger hat on it that they felt it was OK to charge that much, but oh man!
Oh well, we were on a mini-vacation so what can you do?
We then take our seats....ready to go!
Warning, scary picture of me ahead!
Next update, pictures from the show!
Good call!
YUMMO!
It's hard to take a flattering picture of yourself from that angle, but it's the best one out of the options I had! 
