I decided to brave the crowds and take Ali to visit Santa and have her picture taken. Here's sweet Miss Ali all bundled up for our busy day out. I'm not sure she knows what to think!
I completely admit that this was more for me and not for her, since she won't remember it. However, I hope she'll later enjoy the pictures of her first Santa visit. We didn't go see just any Santa; we went to see the famous North Park Santa who has been called "The World's Santa Expert" by the
Wall Street Journal. This Santa is actually a psychology professor at UT in Austin, but he has been coming to Dallas from Thanksgiving to Christmas each year for the last 27 years to be the North Park Santa. He's the real deal. If you don't get there early, you'll be waiting all day. One of my friends went to get her number around 11am on a Sunday and by 3:30pm, she still had not seen Santa. They start handing out numbers at 9:00am and Santa starts seeing kids for photographs at 11:00am. Todd went to the mall this morning at 8:30am to stand in line to get a number, and there were already 3 people ahead of him in line! Then Ali and I went up to the mall at 11:00am to meet our friend Season and her daughter Avery to get in line to see Santa. The mall was an absolute zoo! Check out ALL the people!
Ali was not phased at all by the mall commotion. She slept through the whole thing, both in line and on Santa's lap! Thanks so much to my friend Season and her sweet daughter Avery for meeting us to see Santa. It was a frantic experience, and we decided that we need assistants next year to help us get good pictures on our cameras.
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| We're in line and next to see Santa! |
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| Sweet Ali asleep on Santa's lap |
| Whew! Another "First" to check off our list! |
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