Santa

So our boys have never been that into the jolly red giant.....in fact, for the most part, they could take him or leave him.  There's no wanting to go sit on Santa's knee or have their picture taken with him; which is fine by us as those things cost a small fortune for what they are!  Anyway....it's that time of year again and this year we actually remembered to check when the santa parade was; we missed it last year because we weren't expecting it to be happening in mid NOVEMBER, and by the time we were wondering about it, we found out it had been and gone.

So this year, being well prepared, I actually checked for the date at the beginning of November... imagine my surprise to learn that it was actually going to be held IN December, even 'better', it wasn't even the first weekend in December...go figure.  I now of course realise, that the reason for this, was the worldwide premiere of a certain film.

Our only conflict this year, the parade happened to fall on the same day as David's works Christmas party for the kids.  Like last year, it was being held at the zoo...but that's where the similarities to last years party ended.  To be fair, he was employed by a different company then.  The boys had a good time though, David and I were underwhelmed, and I would have liked a bit more time to actually SEE some animals instead of getting dragged from exhibit to exhibit every 60 seconds.  So after spending the morning at the zoo, we need to decide what we are going to do now.  We knew the parade was on, but if I am honest I wasn't really keen to drag two, crabby, overtired children to a crowded place after they'd been awake since about 5am.  We took a vote..I lost.

In the end, that was a good decision because the boys really enjoyed it.  There was the usual floats; Snoopy, Batucada, Scottish band and even some Chinese Dragons.  There were acrobats, people on stilts, and even angels hanging off the back of trucks.  We were lucky in our chosen spot as well; The boys got to sit right on the kerb, even though we only arrived about 10 minutes before the parade was due to start.  It took a while to find a park, and then we had to detour to Kaffe Eis for ice cream.

We've been home about 90 minutes...and in that time we've cleaned out the fish tank and I've started dinner, oh and I've written this post...speaking of which, dinner is now ready so I suppose we should go and eat it.  It's been a long day, but all in all a good one.