Santa Clause is Coming to Town

I know this is all a bit early but I got an email from La Palmera Mall in Corpus Christi that Santa was coming in today in a helicopter and that there would be free festive activities happening this evening.  I jump on every opportunity for free fun, so here we go.

The first thing we did was get our faces painted by some very friendly (oversized) elves.

 We enjoyed walking around the mall looking at all the new christmas decorations and listening to the two live bands that they had playing at opposite ends of the mall.

 As we were waiting for Santa to arrive we watched a performance by the Corpus Christi Ballet.  They were promoting their upcoming production of the Nutcracker.  I took this picture because that Arabian dancer in the middle there is Kelsey's dance teacher and Kelsey was quite thrilled to see her performing.

Santa finally came.  The thrill and excitement and magical wonder on the kids faces made this whole adventure worth it.

 Next we went upstairs to the 2nd level of the mall to see Mrs. Clause and listen to her read a story.

Is anyone else disturbed by this?  Here we have Santa come escorted by a young and scantily clad woman in a christmas lingerie looking outfit while Mrs. Clause is upstairs reading stories to the children???

I REALLY REALLY REALLY miss the South Towne Mall Santa!

Not even SAINT Nicholas is a descent role model here!

All morals are GONE!  This City has gone to the crapper!

 At least the evening ended well with free cookies and milk and lets faceit, that's the REAL reason we went.