As I drove up to the Mall I saw people parking in the grass and walking from far away!! Aaaa!! I was thinking to myself, what in the world am I doing here??? But to my surprise a nice pedestrian waved me on to their front row parking spot - thank you random friendly person!!
All in all I am glad we made the trip! It was very memorable for both Jonathan and I! We will have to go back again, on a less crowded day next year!
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| Seeing the big fountain for the first time, and he said "I want to jump in!!!" |
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| Ebenezer Scrooge Puppet Show -- Jonathan is recently potty trained and doing great, but I knew it had been a while since his last bathroom break and we needed to find one quickly! But after we walked inside we were immediately distracted by a puppet show that was just beginning. It was Scrooge and he was hilarious! Jonathan snuck onto the front row and as soon as the show began, Ebenezer started talking directly to Jonathan, he said, "hey you, in the blue shirt, how old are you?" Jonathan froze up and didn't really respond, I am not sure if he was scared or just being shy. But it was funny none the less! He picked on several others but came back to Jonathan again! ...then thankfully we made it to the bathroom! |
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| Jonathan watching the Scrooge show. |
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| Okay, so apparently there is a procedure that I am unaware of to be able to see this Santa Claus! As you can see he is pretty awesome...but this is as close as we got. Have you ever seen the movie "The Christmas Story"? Well, we lived out a scene from that movie. You know when the two kids want to go see Santa at the dept store and they see the line and they are like "hey, that's not too bad" and then this guy yells, "Hey kid, the line starts back here?" and the line is like a mile long - As you can gather, that is what happened to us. I saw like 5 people in line and my heart jumped! I thought, wow, front row parking, front row seats at the show and now a 5 min wait to see Santa...WORLD's BEST MOM! But that was short lived. We walked to the line and an official looking man approached and asked for our tickets. I knew immediately this was not good, so I said "No, where do I get ticket's?" and he Laughed...and my sinking feeling continues...long story short, I still have no idea how you get tickets, I swear the guy was still laughing at us as we walked away, I turned and saw the line off to the side and it was a mile long. So I quickly put a smile on my face and said, "Good news, we get to go wave at Santa!" but Jonathan wasn't buying it, he cried a little and kept asking me why he couldn't sit on his lap. Total bummer. |
Our sadness about Santa was quickly forgotten when we found the train exhibit. I had heard about this and seen it on the news and I knew that it would go over well with Jonathan and boy was I right! It is a charity for the Ronald McDonald House!
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| Texas State Fair! |
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| TownTown Tallas! |
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| Grand Central Station |
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| We discovered Thomas the Tank Engine! He is the blur to the right of his hand. |
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| So he patiently sat there and waited for him to come back around...again and again. |
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| Oh my goodness, then suddenly we discovered the Polar Express! And again, we were mesmerized and we waited again and again to see it pass by! I loved it. I wished my Dad was there with us! |
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| "Look Mom! It's the Polar Express!!!" |
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| And again... |
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| Spontaneous jump for JOY! |
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| The White House! |
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