We had a successful trip to see Santa this year. Both kids were happy, but I was irritated with the guy working the Santa picture booth. He said we couldn’t take our own pictures, so we said we’d take the smallest package, got the kids’ picture taken (um, thanks for getting them looking at the camera, numb-skull), and got in line to pay our $16.99 + tax for a 5×7…when a lady walked up with her two kids, told the guy she didn’t need him to take a picture, and promptly – AND RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE GUY – started to take her own pictures.
Whiskey.Tango.Foxtrot.
Seeing as how there was no line, I almost got us back in line so I could NOT take a picture with my own camera too. Thinking back on it now, I should have offered to pay the $15 to let me take my own picture, because at least then the kids might have been looking at the same thing Santa was, instead of the numbskull to their left shaking the jingle bells.
But in the spirit of the holiday, blah blah, we paid our money (woo-hoo, the dude gave us $3 off!) and got this one 5×7. The best is when he was trying to talk us into more poses after HEARING another woman & I ask why this other chick was allowed to take her own pictures.
Anyway – the kids were great and slowly climbed up on Santa’s lap. Mallory asked for “Chute (sic) & Ladders”, but the best is that when you ask her what she wants for Christmas, she’ll tell you Chutes & Ladders, but then she quickly starts to talk about what Carson wants (a phone like the one what she has [that was a Burger King kid’s meal toy from January 2009 that she got when we were waiting for the results of her X-ray from having pneumonia…I told you I can remember some weird stuff]) and Rick wants a iPhone car thing.
I kinda like it with their eyes looking different ways. It’s like they’re in this great pose and Santa looked away, breaking the fourth plane, just long enough to look at the camera saying, ‘aren’t these kids adorable’?
Chutes and Ladders is a great game. It will teach her how to by-pass others in the business world by luck and being in the right place at the right time. I could go on.