Another year, another visit to Santa! This year, Cubby's parents came with (they were in town for a day on their way out to Utah to spend Christmas out there)! We went on Tuesday afternoon, after school, thinking that it wouldn't be too crowded. Well, thankfully we arrived while Santa was "on break" and was able to get our name written down. Had we come even 20 min later, we would've had to wait over an hour to see him. As it was, we only had to wait 10 min...which was 10 min too long for Miss Juliana.
See, we love going to see this particular Santa b/c he is sooo the quintessential perfect Santa. Not only does he look exactly like what I'd always pictured Santa to look like, he is incredibly patient and really listens to the children. He has the kindest eyes and last year, even though he was supposed to go on break, he allowed Christian and Kari to come talk to him b/c we had waited for soooo long (twice; b/c the first time it took too long and we had to go back).
This year, it was a much shorter wait (thankfully b/c Christian had soccer practice that night). As always, Emily wanted nothing to do with talking to Santa. However, she was a good sport for a picture...mostly b/c I told her that if I'm paying $18 for one picture then she was going to smile! Christian could hardly wait to talk to him and had a huge list...of which he picked his 4 favorite things (of the day). Kari was excited to see Santa, but pretty shy about talking to him so I helped her say what she wanted (a "Hello Kitty" clock). Juliana was happy to wave to Santa from a distance, but once she got up there she got scared and our group shot turned into one of those classic crying pictures.
So, was it worth it? Yes! Afterwards (and for the next two days) both Christian and Kari kept telling me how happy they were that they got to see Santa and tell him what they wanted for Christmas. It was so sweet and made it all worth it in the end.
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