Thursday, December 21, 2017

Christmas Lane 2017

aka the year that the little boy got to big to drive in Daddy's Lap. *sniff* Oh, my heart. *sigh*  This was the first year the little boy spent the entire ride in the back seat.  He may have been able to see everything he needed to from his vantage point, but it was just so glaring that our little boy was getting bigger and older.  ARRGGHHHH.

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As with years past, we got there just in time to get in a long line. Oh well, at least it wasn't chaotic, and there WAS a Person In Charge of directing traffic, so that no one would jump queue or anything like that.
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There really isn't anything that I can say about the displays, except that it was good to see some of the familiar ones from the various entities.  Some of them were really good, though.
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There wasn't much of a wind to mess with the inflatables too much, but that didn't stop some of them from looking like they were doing the "I'm A Little Kettle" dance, or like they were in some sort of choreographed Group Limbo dance.
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After making the circuit, we parked and went towards the indoors bit to see Santa, make a phone call to the North Pole and run around a bit with MORE displays on the inside.
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The first thing I noticed was that it was really much better lit up in the room than previous years.  AND, there was an operator seated at the Train Table.
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The little boy was pretty enamored and burned off a bunch of calories running around with the trains over and over and over.
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Animatronics Dolls. 'Nuff said.
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We couldn't leave without getting a couple of bags of popcorns..
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and the little boy got to make a phone call to The North Pole Elves.
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After that, with our popcorns in tow, we drove around the neighborhoods for a bit, taking in every bit of Christmas Cheer that was shared.
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and wrapping up our night with the Christmas decorations at the Arrow Ford dealership.
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