We started off bright and early on Saturday morning and tried to get to Macy's right when they opened. Back when it was Dayton's, they had the most glorious displays up in their 8th floor auditorium - and it was a different theme every year! Well, Macy's went all cheap and have shown the same display every year since 2008. Ugh.
BUT, it's still all new to Rose! So off we went:
And after the display we went to see Santa!
She was definitely apprehensive about the whole encounter (as evidenced by her refusal to get any closer than arm's length away), but the whole things was definitely better than Santa 2012.
After Macy's we went to see Vocal Essence's annual family-friend Christmas concert, Star of Wonder. I had never been to this particular concert before, but I really wanted to expose Rose to some great choral music and perhaps to start a new family tradition. We ended up with *awesome* general admission seats (third row, dead center), due to our confusion about where to enter and thus accidentally entering through a side hallways and getting to be the third family in line just as the doors opened and we didn't realize there was a HUGE line just around the corner. OOPS!
Rose especially loved the dancers and she was enthralled . . . for the first 30 min or so. After that she got a little bored - even announcing her boredom in a stage whisper (d'oh!) and even covering her ears at the end of the concert (double d'oh!). But overall it was a good experience - more so for me than for her, but sometimes parenting means a win for the parent instead of the kid, no?
To top the day off, we also made gingerbread cookies after nap. Let's just say I was going for function over form (i.e., taste over appearance), because otherwise these would be considered a total fail!
Hope you all had a great weekend!
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