Last Friday night we went into the city to go a visit Santa. Grandma came with us and Poppy ended up joining us as well. While we were waiting for Daddy and Poppy to finish work we went to check out one of the toy stores. Haylie loved it and was going around grabbing things off the shelves and bringing them back to the stroller. Lachlan loved looking at all the Lego. He especially loved one that you made into a quad bike! Amie and Caitlyn loved looking at all the barbies and anything that was pink. When Daddy and Poppy got there we went to visit Santa. There was only a couple of other people in line so we didn't have to wait long. At this Santa you could take your own photos which was fantastic.
Here are Amie and Caitlyn telling Santa their names and ages. They had no trouble talking to Santa.
Then I tried to get Haylie to say Hello............
....... but she wasn't really a fan of Santa! She just screamed and tried to get away. She was ok if I stood inbetween her and Santa, but even then she was still shaking. Lachlan also wasn't a big fan of Santa until he gave out some chocolate at the end.
We then went to another department store where they have a place called Santaland. It was really cool. There was a free train ride for the kids, you could write a letter to Santa or email him, they also had the Polar Express movie playing. We didn't see Santa here but the kids went around on the train, twice. There was hardly any people there so they stayed on for another ride!
After some dinner we headed over to the Magic Cave. Again, we didn't go to see Santa we just had a ride on the carousel and looked in the funny mirrors. Here they are next to the talking tree!
We to the other big toy store in the city and a big book store before heading home. Along the way we looked out for Christmas lights! It was a really fun night out. The kids ended up writing a letter to Santa while we had dinner and they got replies in the mail a couple of days ago. They were sooooo excited to get mail just for them.
