Santa House

Our girls have never been big fans of sitting on Santa's lap. Most years resulted in something like this...

this photo screams "mom hurry up and take the picture, we're barely hanging on here!"

The past few years we haven't even pushed the subject, cause quite frankly we get it. Sitting on the lap of a stranger in a red suit is a little weird.  Our girls have been perfectly satisfied with letter writing being their sole means of communication with the big guy. So, we were a little surprised when Emmrey decided she did in fact want to go see Santa this year. We picked an evening last week to go and then swim and basketball practice got in the way. On Saturday we told Emmrey we would go for sure (that girl likes a firm commitment;) Turns out that day a snow storm rolled in. We knew that the house sits in Old Town Square and we could potentially be outdoors. I also figured it would not be a super popular day for visiting for the same reason. Well we spent nearly an hour standing out it this wet snow .. ..

  They had a mailbox there as another option, but Emm wanted to stick it out.

 

 She didn't complain a bit so we didn't have an out even if we wanted one. There were only about 5 groups in line before us, but that line was not budging.

 

We finally had our turn with the Old Time Santa. He was very patient and took his time talking to Emm. They had it all set up with photographers who were more than willing to take pictures.We opted to snap our own pic as opposed to paying a small fortune for the photo shoot  (shocked that people pay for that). Needless to say, that shortened our time in the house and I am sure the families behind us were appreciative;) 

  Bay and Kars kept warm and dry by spending the time looking through shops on the square. They met up with us just in time to run for the car. Emmrey was happy she made the visit, but she just wasn't sure whether that was the "real Santa" or not?