Our Santa tradition in Texas involves North Park Mall in Dallas. The Santa there is great, we go for a scheduled story time and then visit with Santa. Unfortunately for us we aren't the only family that visits this Santa as part of a family holiday tradition and for that reason we need to get there early to get tickets to see Santa. Normally we would all go down together and wait in line for the ticket, but this year Jeremy decided to drive down there early, get the ticket and come back home to get us. He left home at 9ish, the tickets were being distributed starting at 10am, he got our ticket right around 10 and headed home to get us, we were number 14 in line. After getting all the kids ready and in their photo clothing we headed down and arrived at North Park at around 11:45, 15 minutes before storytime. The kids found a seat and waited for Santa to make his appearance.
Here are the kids waiting for the story time
Santa tells two stories, Finn wasn't so into the first one but the second one got his attention because it was about a Dragon!
Here is Santa telling his story with his dog Widget
After the story we went and got in line for our visit. We had to wait about 30 minutes which was interesting with a 3 year old and a 2 month old but we made it. The wait was worth it when we saw the smile on Finn's face when he got to visit with Santa.
A little different than last year
We got some pictures with Soleil and then the kids talked to Santa when she was done visiting, she didn't last long!
The kids had specific requests this year. Finn was a bit shy so Madeleine asked for his Lego train set for him, Madeleine asked for Gwen (an American Girl Doll), Campbell asked for a guitar and Owen asked for a keyboard, with stand and headphones :)
We'll find out soon if they are on the good or naughty list.
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