On Saturday, December 13th we wanted to go to the mall to take pictures with Santa and then eat chicken nuggets to celebrate Ellie's Bday. Well, we got in line to wait for Santa and the wait was at least 2.5 hours long so we decided to skip that and just go eat. Chick-fil-a was right next to Panda Express so Trevor, Nick and I got that instead.
(I did take the kids back the following Wednesday to see Santa and the funny thing is we ended up waiting about 2.5 hours anyways. The kids were great and they loved seeing Santa and getting a picture with a stuffed Olaf and playing in the snow in the ice castle (they had a Frozen theme this year) so it worked out just fine. Next year though we will be visiting Santa in November!)
That evening we went to the Washington D.C. Visitor center to see the Christmas lights. We had a good time seeing all the lights and in the visitor center they had displays of nativities from around the world. Trevor loved reading the signs to see what country they were from!
Nick and the kids right outside the visitor center doors.
They had a big nativity set up outside in the corner of the visitor parking lot.
We then walked around to get a picture in front of the temple. This temple is so beautiful all lit up at night and not just at Christmas...the first time we drove west around the 495 at night and I saw the temple all lit up it was stunning!
A kind person saw us trying to take pictures and offered to take a group photo of us...well, lets just say Jacob wanted nothing to do with it.
The kids.
Jacob loved this tree, he kept saying "Mom look at that huge Christmas tree!"
It was a fun night seeing lights. I did mention a number of times to Nick that there were so many people there, but I just need to come to terms with the fact that there are just a lot of people here.
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