365: Day 347- A Visit to Santa!

12/14/13: Last Saturday was the only time we had to visit Santa. We headed back to Bass Pro Shops knowing it would be pretty busy on a Saturday night just two weeks before Christmas (click here to read about our Santa adventures last year). Sure enough, we walked in at 5:25 and the woman at the door said, "here to see Santa? here's a 'Santa Pass' for 7:30". Derek and I just looked at each other and thought "here we go again". We had all been up late the night before and there was no way in hell we were hanging around Bass Pro Shops for 2 hours. I looked at the kids and started to explain how we weren't going to see Santa after all. The Santa Pass lady overheard me and said, "oh, I forgot! i have some 5:30 passes right here". Maybe she really did forget, but the whole situation struck me as a scam to get people to shop before seeing Santa. When she realized we were going to walk out the door she pulled out a pass to get us in the store. We walked downstairs where the families with 6:00 and 6:30 passes were already lined up and we got escorted to the front of the line.

When Santa asked Zoe & Silas what they want for Christmas, Zoe promptly replied "Silas wants a remote controlled airplane and I want a remote controller helicopter". Santa gave me a very funny look and said, "We'll see what Santa can do" (little do they know that Julia actually got them remote controlled airplanes for Christmas!).

We stopped to look at the big fish before we headed out into the snow to go to Bertucci's for pizza.

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2013!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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