Quill's First Musical: Wicked

Quill saw his first musical and theater production today, WICKED with Josie, mom and dad.

First, about the musical! It was so good. I've been waiting to see it since it came out, I had read the book way back when that first came out. I always wanted mom to read it because I fell in love with the different perspective. It instills the fact that you can't judge a book by its cover. The music was wonderful, the costumes were spot on, the mechanics, like the Wizard was amazing, I absolutely loved this musical. I cried several times (but my downs from the Ketamine make me extremely emotional I believe.) the story, again, was phenomenal. I can't believe I actually saw Wicked!

Now to the service animal part:

I was so scared about bringing Quill to see Wicked. I didn't know what to expect with the noise level and the crowds and I was so worried. Mom called and talked to the manager before hand, and they said it's perfectly fine and they were more worried about how loud it was and people not seeing him.

Luck would have it, before I even got Quill mom stumbled upon getting the box seats, which (for all you Peace Center goers) it's no more expensive than regular seats you just have to search for them, and they are hard to find. We had our own private seating area, with a door) where we had plenty of room to set Quill up with his bankie and bully stick.

I'm so proud of him, he didn't even make one peep, even when it was extremely loud. He watched the first couple minutes with me and then fell asleep, didn't wake up until intermission and then fell asleep again when it came back on. He did wonderful. Also, the people at the peace center are super service dog friendly. They didn't even hesitate or give Quill a second chance.

The only bad part is that with Quill, it'll be hard to sit in the regular seats, cause he'll have to be on my lap, and the seats are so cramped the can't stay on the floor. When Cookie comes into the picture there is no way regular seating will be possible. Cookie is just too big unless we use him as a foot rest. I've never actually seen service dogs at any plays or shows before, I guess maybe they put them in the handicap area where there's more room? I'm not sure, but (this is going to sound selfish) I'm worried that both mom and I having service animals will limit our ability to do theater stuff, or concerts. 

Anyways, Quill did so good, today was the first time we used the over the shoulder leash, and it worked really well.

I couldn't be happier with how Quill was today. Good experiences like this make me not as scared to have a service dog. Cookies trainer, Nicole, says it gets easier over time to grow a backbone and say "he's a service dog, you can't refuse me service" and be so shaken up about it. Today I was proud to have such an obedient little puppy at my side.