The Collett twins have experienced the rite of passage that comes with Christmas- their first trip to see Santa Claus. This Santa Claus trip was not without some drama, but the kids were troopers.
Tony and I got online last night and found out the opening times of the mall Santas in our area, and we decided to go to the mall by my school because they opened an hour before everyone else. Santa opened at 11am and we thought we could go in and see Santa and then have a nice lunch before the kids needed to eat their bottles at 1pm. When Tony and I walked up, we saw a line to see Santa, and as we rounded the corner we saw even more line...we couldn't see the end of the line...it snaked around and around and finally out of the back of the foyer and into the food court. Tony kept saying "holy cow" over and over again. We took our place at the end of the line and as we stood around, we watched three families bail out of line ahead of us; I was happy to see them go and thought this might make the line move a little more quickly. One hour later, we were still waiting to see Santa and we still had to traverse the foyer and go through "the Ice Castle" before we saw Santa. Tony spoke to a security guard who informed us that it was a 2 hour wait from the Godiva Chocolate store- we still had another 20 yards before we got to the Godiva store. We decided to bail out of line and go to lunch. The kids had a much more enjoyable time at lunch than they did in line for Santa and we were done eating, back home, and giving the kids their bottles by 1:30. We had gotten in line at the mall at 11:15, and gotten out of line at 12:20- Tony said at 2:40 "hey, we would be getting to see Santa right now" as we were putting the kids down for their nap. I am so glad we got out of that line.
This evening our town had a Christmas party in the town square complete with ice skating, a sled hill, carriage rides, fake snow...and Santa Claus. The party started at 5:30, and Tony and I had the kids bundled up and in their strollers sprinting toward the Santa line by 5:45. Thankfully, this line was inside and it moved quickly. Santa was very nice, and both Jack and Harper did well. Harper wasn't quite sure she wanted to sit with Santa, and Jack wasn't quite sure who Santa was, but we excited the line with photographic evidence of our Santa visit and that's what counts! It was also nice that there were no tears.
We decided to celebrate our Santa victory with dinner at a local Italian restaurant. The kids were great at dinner too; they like to eat out and try little bites off our plates. Harper learned how to use a straw tonight at dinner and was cracking us up because she'd take a swig of my ice water and then shake her head back and forth (in a "no" motion) like the cold surprised her. Tony and I burst out laughing the first time she did it, so she repeated the action again and again, grinning every time and waiting for our laughter. What a cute little stinker! Jack got to try some marinara sauce and he really liked it- Tony thinks we're going to see lots of spaghetti dinners in our future.
Tony and I got online last night and found out the opening times of the mall Santas in our area, and we decided to go to the mall by my school because they opened an hour before everyone else. Santa opened at 11am and we thought we could go in and see Santa and then have a nice lunch before the kids needed to eat their bottles at 1pm. When Tony and I walked up, we saw a line to see Santa, and as we rounded the corner we saw even more line...we couldn't see the end of the line...it snaked around and around and finally out of the back of the foyer and into the food court. Tony kept saying "holy cow" over and over again. We took our place at the end of the line and as we stood around, we watched three families bail out of line ahead of us; I was happy to see them go and thought this might make the line move a little more quickly. One hour later, we were still waiting to see Santa and we still had to traverse the foyer and go through "the Ice Castle" before we saw Santa. Tony spoke to a security guard who informed us that it was a 2 hour wait from the Godiva Chocolate store- we still had another 20 yards before we got to the Godiva store. We decided to bail out of line and go to lunch. The kids had a much more enjoyable time at lunch than they did in line for Santa and we were done eating, back home, and giving the kids their bottles by 1:30. We had gotten in line at the mall at 11:15, and gotten out of line at 12:20- Tony said at 2:40 "hey, we would be getting to see Santa right now" as we were putting the kids down for their nap. I am so glad we got out of that line.
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