Bass Pro/Gaylord

We usually do all of our Christmas festivities way before Christmas. However, as you know we were totally consumed with Disney World and illness before Christmas so we ended up doing our festivities a day or two before. We went to Bass Pro to see Santa and thought there wouldn't be much of a line...were we wrong. We got there at 4:30 and received a card to return at 6:30! So we hung around Bass Pro for a while then decided to hop on over to Gaylord for some photo ops. We also had dinner at a Pizza place that was fabulous and kid friendly! When we returned to Bass Pro we were able to walk past everyone in line and go straight to Santa. It was worth the extra excursion!

This is the chair where we got our Christmas card photo from for the last 2 years. This year our card was all Disney.

They posed themselves.

They were super excited to see that the theme for Ice was Kung Fu Panda! We didn't actually go inside the Ice display but they enjoyed seeing all of the stuff outside.

The kids love going to Bass Pro or "the fish store" as they call it. They like climbing all over everything. I see some of these items in my future...yikes.

Eek! Scary!

Finally. We meet Santa. He was looking at the Bass Pro camera and the kids were looking at mine.

At least Caleb was excited this year. He hopped right up in his lap. He asked for a real crocodile and a real shark. Ethan asked for an X-box 360. Poor kids...Santa didn't deliver this year.

That's his mean face shooting a gun.

He looks a little meaner.

**I'm glad we made it to these two places. We didn't make it to Prairie Lights this year. Next year we'll be all about Christmas!**