Visiting Santa Claus

We made it out to Crown Center earlier this week to visit Santa Claus.  We usually would visit Santa at my work's company party, however this year they decided to forgo the party and just get us fleece jackets instead.  Not a fair trade if you ask me, but they didn't, so I guess I will just enjoy my new fleece!

We heard that Crown Center gets really, really busy on the weekends, so we opted for a visit during the week.  That was a great idea, because there was absolutely NO LINE at all for Santa and Colin did really well.  There was also a whole exhibit called Crayola Land with lots of things for Colin to play on.

Meemaw was able to come with us, too, which made it even more fun!

Colin talking to Santa.  He got a little nervous right before he sat down, but I had Maggie sit down first, which eased his fears some.  He told Santa he wanted cars, blocks, and a Thomas train for Christmas.  Sounds good to me!

This Santa was really nice, and the best part was, we could take our own pictures for free!

I thought this picture was great!!

Then we headed off to play on the Crayola displays...

There were slides...

And more slides...

And more slides...

And even Maggie had fun playing with toys on the walls

Maggie was in such a good mood!

We attempted a family picture in front of Frosty, however Colin didn't want to stop playing and was not happy about being contained in Daddy's arms

So we got one of the 3 of us

Meemaw showing Colin how to work the gingerbread men display

Such a cutie patootie little girl

Another try at a family picture.  Colin was looking at the Crayola Land employee that was coming over to tell us we were breaking the Crayola Land rules by sitting on the play structure.  Whoops!

Then we headed over to Union Station (via the Link, which takes you in catwalks over the streets) to see the trains and big Christmas trees.  Unfortunately, the train wasn't running on Mondays, but we still enjoyed the walk.

Colin and Daddy with the Station Master

We came back to Crown Center to get a bite to eat for dinner.  We ate at "a street car named desire" and it was pretty good.  Brian and Colin ran into this shark balloon that was being controlled by a gentleman at the toy store on the floor above us.  He flew it right by Colin, which was really cool for us to see! 

We had a great time visiting Santa at Crown Center.  The next morning, Colin woke up asking to go see Santa again.  Maybe we'll get back there before Christmas, who knows?!