Good Lord, I don't even want to bore y'all with the details of the trip to see Santa Claus at the mall this past Saturday. It wasn't good at all people. I'll make it as brief as possible so you can all have a good laugh at my expense.
- Get the kids(we brought my six year old niece also) ready and leave the house around 2:30. I think perfect timing. We get the mall and it's snack time for my son and he took a really good nap. I grab a cup of coffee and the get the kids one of those yummy chocolate chip cookies from the cookie shop.
- We all eat cookies, life is great.
- The mall is so packed we can hardly move.
- We go to see Santa the line is huge.
- Bryce wants out of the stroller. We get him out of the stroller, he then decides that he wants to run around like a wild man as he just ate chocolate(huge mistake). Daddy decides to hold Bryce to stop him from plowing through the people. Daddy gets smacked in the face about 5 times from Bryce.
- Mommy decides enough of that and puts Bryce back in the stroller. Bryce melts down.
- We finally get up to see Santa. The kids get on his lap. The asshole picture lady doesn't take a picture. At this point the kids have been on Santa's lap for at least five minutes.
- I ask picture lady if she's going to take the fucking picture or what?
- Picture lady informs me that the couple that was in front of us need to decide which shot they lwant/like before she can take another picture.
- We get the kids off of Santa's lap and Bryce decides to go into full blown temper tantrum mode, which includes throwing himself on the ground kicking and screaming. He's pissed as he wants to run and play.
- Picture lady tells us she's ready, the kids get back on Santa's lap and they take two pictures. You're suppose to get 3 shots but my son was wiggling off Santa's lap.
- I decide which shot we want tell picture lady that it's not good but I'll take it anyway.
- We wait for 5 to 10 minutes for the pictures and no pictures. The couple behind us are getting their pictures at this point.
- I ask picture lady where are my pictures and she said that she thought I didn't want them so she deleted them, but, if I hold on a couple more minutes she'll get the kids back on Santa's lap for the third time.
- ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? At this point we've spent an hour waiting in line and for our pictures. I could not do that to the kids again.
- I declined.
- Luckily I snapped one shitty fucking picture with my camera during the chaos.
- Sweet niece comments as we are leaving the mall, "Aunt Kim, Bryce was so bad he ruined my day". "What's wrong with him, he never acts like that?"
- I have no fucking clue but it was an definitly an experience, lol.
So, that was my short version of Santa hell....
And I now leave you with this.
That didn't sound enjoyable! hope the rest of your holiday season was great!
Posted by: silver | January 04, 2009 at 01:29 AM