For some reason the Little Mermaid song, "Part of Your World" always gets me teary eyed every time (!) even though I have played and sung it hundreds of times on my guitar at home--"for the kids" of course. Well, knowing this, my DH and DS(8) refused to go into the MGM LM show w/ me, so off I went on my own. I ended up sitting front row center--well the row behind the wheelchair row---and well, even before the show began, I was quite "verklempt" at the sweetness of the whole thing. There was a little girl and her parents sitting beside me on my right and another on my left---one had an Ariel outfit on and the other was non-stop chattering with excitement about how she was going to really see Ariel. Both looked about 4 years old and they were so adorable! Suddenly in that dark underwater cave, I just became overwhelmed and the tears started streaming!!! I was biting the inside of my cheeks, but still, I began to blubber so hard that my entire face was wet and my shoulders were shaking and then my whole body was shaking---and when the music/show started---OMGosh, I was sobbing so hard--just bawling my eyes out and it was out of control blubbering!! At first both little girls leaned way far away from me in their seats, but both of them kept staring at me while I was trying to get a hold of myself (I am 46 years old-ahem)! The parents were peeking, too with concern in their eyes

. Then one of the girls climbed into her mother's lap and I heard her ask her mom if I was afraid of the dark and was I by myslef, and WHY, WHY is that lady crying, mommy?!
By the time Ariel was fanning her tail on that rock, I could barley see her with my blurred vision, but I swore it looked like Ariel gave me a "get a grip" look! Just as I was finally calming down, the little girl on my right began to scream and cry at the top of her lungs

for the rest of the show---when we got up to leave, her parents gave me a "Thanks a lot, lady" look, which then made me start to giggle---so as I came out of the show into the sunshine I still had tears all over my face but I was laughing like a crazed woman and when my DH and DS saw me, they took one look at each other, rolled their eyes

and then ran away from me as fast as they could! I had a terrible time catching up with them.
