Enchanted Evening

Friday night was spent being a part of the Enchanted Evening Party sponsored by the Gurnee Park District. Children are treated to coloring pages, crowns, and wands along with photos and "meet and greet" with their favorite fairy tale characters. Dinner and dancing is also a part of the festivities.

Most of the attendees are Father/Daughter dates, and I have to say it was so sweet seeing the many daughters that sported corsages and bouquets of flowers from their daddy's, along with others who matched each other, and even a few that came in full costume! One family actually had dad as king with his princess, and another family where the kids were dressed as knight, princess, and dragon...too cute!

I'm sure you can figure out who I was...it was so much fun getting to dance with all the kids and spend time talking and playing with them. There were quite a few that were concerned that Prince Charming wasn't with me all night long...I had to explain that he was every one's prince that night. And he really was. What a good sport, making sure he posed for pictures and danced with all the little princesses...but we did make a point to dance a little to show that "fairy tales really do come true". And fortunately (and unfortunately), I wore the dreaded 5" clear pageant heels with crystals, because I had many little girls ask to see my glass slippers...and they do look like them! Some even asked when I would lose one of them...how tempting that was halfway through the night!!! ;)

One little girl asked about my sash, because she said she thought I was Cinderella, but only queens wear sashes...so when I told her I was a "queen", she was all too excited to tell her mommy that I was the real Cinderella because in the story she marries the prince and someday becomes the good queen and so she was seeing the story really come true. So darling what these little ones think of and retain!

Special thanks to Linda Brogren for coordinating the event and my part in it, to Christie for once again doing an amazing job facilitating everything, and of course to all the volunteers making this a great event for the families.

Enjoy the photos!

PS: Don't you love our Miss, Jr. Miss and Little Miss Gurnee pageant gals?! All they needed to have were wings and they would have been perfect little Tinker Bells in their green dresses!