Today David and I took the boys to a nearby mall. We didn't go to the mall to do any Christmas shopping. On the contrary, we didn't spend more than $5.00 - the boys suddenly got hungry after our walk through the mall. We went to the mall to let the boys run around and look at the pretty Christmas trees and I was hoping that we could find Santa.
We were walking from one end of the mall that had a Christmas tree to the other end of the mall where the other tree was and I realized that nowhere was there anything to do with Santa. By this I mean that there were no signs anywhere advertising a visit to Santa. It was really strange. I'm not sure if this is the trend throughout all shopping malls. I wonder if the reason that there was no Santa was because this particular mall wanted to make Christmas even more of a shopping holiday.
Could it be that there was no Santa because people who bring their kids to see Santa bring along their digital cameras and snap a picture thereby rendering the sale of photos of the kiddies and Santa unnecessary? I remember being a child and being brought to the local Sears store where I would run and try to find Santa. There was a story that my family loves to tell about the time I was 3 or 4 years old and we went to Woodfield Mall - a ginormous mall if you're not familiar. I was able to read and followed the signs advertising a visit with Santa. Apparently, I broke away from my family and made a bee line for Santa.
The line for Santa was ridiculous but it didn't stop me. I cut in front of all those people in line (this part I do remember because I was taught to say "excuse me" and I thought that if I said "excuse me" then they HAD to let me through and the people in line actually did) who had at least a 45 minute wait ahead of them to get to Santa. The rest of the story, which I cannot remember, is that I found my parents in that ridiculously huge mall and presented my father with a bill for the cost of the picture of me and Santa. If my boys have any of my craziness in them then David and I are in HUGE trouble!
did you end up asking someone? This is really bizarre...
Posted by: misty | November 26, 2007 at 09:01 AM
what the heck mall doesn't have a santa??!! that's just wrong and all kinds o' broken....
i love that you were crazy but polite as a child... i got lost at sears downtown once. they didn't find me until the store closed, i'd fallen asleep under a rack of coats. i think i aged my mom about ten years in one afternoon. :)
Posted by: mamazilla | November 26, 2007 at 03:02 PM