Visting Santa and Mrs. Claus!

Monday night we headed over to the Doubletree Hotel in town to meet Santa Claus and Mrs Claus.  They had a gingerbread village, a choir performing, an awesome dessert and hot chocolate bar (free even!) and free pictures with Santa.  It was so fun.  It was such a nice community event.  Santa, Mrs. Claus and an Elf wandered around talking to people before it was time for pictures and gave out chocolate marshmallows to everyone so Jared and Lydia were totally sold on him. They were total all stars when it was their turn to sit on Santa's lap.  In fact we had a harder time getting Jared to  leave Santa.  He had so much to tell him!  They were so excited. Lydia was plenty excited to meet him but she may have been more excited about the Hot Chocolate Mark promised her if she was brave when she met Santa.  The Gingerbread Village was beautiful and really well done.  They even made a gingerbread replica of the Rotunda at UVA. It's a shame it is being renovated for the next 18 months or so.  I can't wait to see it without the scaffolding and fences around it.  It looked very nice made out of Gingerbread. We met up with my friend Laura and her kids and had visiting with them.  It was such a fun night!  Hooray for The Double Tree Hotel! I hope they do it again each year because we will totally go.