KP Santa

It’s Ashlyn’s first Christmas to we wanted to make sure we went to see Santa with the girls. That means a trip to the mall at a time that is not healthy for someone as impatient as me. To top it off we stopped at Costco first so my mood was less than festive.

We went to Kildonan Place because it’s right beside Costco and it’s free. We already have a few pictures of the girls with Santa from our breakfast the other morning but we needed the Mall Santa to make it all official for the girls. It was lined up to the gills when we got there so Shan and Ashlyn stood in line while Lexi and I did some looking around and ended up getting in a fight with the girl at the “Seen On TV Store” about the cost of their “Eggies“. They want $19.00 +tax for 6 and the ones on TV are $9.99 for 12 and 2 egg slicers! She said the postage was $12 but when I looked on the site on my phone while I was there I proved her wrong…$7.99 for postage. Clearly I could not buy her 6 for $19.99 and sleep at night.

When we got back to the line Shan motioned me over and told me that this woman who was behind was complaining about the wait and had somehow advanced to the nearly the front of the line with her 2 10 year old kids. WTF. She made some excuse about someone holding her place in line and pushed her way up there. Shan even said something to her and when the lady barked back at Shan (who was holding a 6 month old BTW) another lady in line got into it too. It was quite entertaining really.

In the meantime Lexi and I were standing near Santa’s exit and she was watching all the kids sit on his lap. I guess when I had my head turned and in between customers Santa called Lexi in to get a candycane. I didn’t know he called her in so I kinda barked at her “NOPE, it’s not our turn yet and she came back out quickly” – Santa was kinda looking at me holding his candy cane out and I had to explain to him that I didn’t realize he had summoned her in and that we were actually coming up on our turn. It must have been strange for Lexi to see me pull power on Santa like that!

On the plus side Santa was really cool this year. Not the yellow bearded old grump of years past. Ashlyn really seems to like Santa. Both times she has been on his lap this year she cranks her head over to have a look at him and gets a big smile on her face. She must be thinking “if only I could get a hold of that beard!”.