If you tell your kids Santa is real, they may believe you but are always trying to find out if he really is.
If you tell your kids Santa is fake, they may believe you but are always trying to find out if he really is.
St. Nicholas did exist at one time and was a wonderful, caring man.
Is he still alive, living at the North Pole, and squeezing his fat merry self down people's chimneys to deliver toys today?
A highly debated question.
Due to this particular debate amongst kids at school, a few of my children quite honestly don't believe me that Santa isn't real (because yes, I'm one of those moms that has told my kids Santa is pretend).
Well, still, I recently decided to take the boys (Isaac, Levi, and Deacon) to "the North Pole". The boys were very excited, and I thought it would be a fun way to spend time with them.
This was the lovely advertisement :
"Board one of the Lake Coeur d'Alene cruise boats and take a magical trip across the water to visit Santa and Mrs. Claus at the North Pole workshop. On the way enjoy a Christmas movie, like Rudolph, Charlie Brown, or the Muppets! Every child is guaranteed to make Santa's nice list, and Santa personally reads each name from the list aloud! See the World's Tallest Christmas Tree on display at the North Pole, laden with over 30,000 sparkling LED lights and rising to 161 ft, more than twice the height of New York City's famous Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree! Bring the family, bring the camera, bring the smiles, as we all share in the Christmas spirit. Kids 12 and under ride free!"
So okay, this may have just been our particular trip, (or perhaps it's just in the eye of the beholder - me), but here was our reality :
Board one of the Lake Coeur d'Alene cruise boats and take a (freezing! if you brave the top deck, or crowded! if you find yourself a spot on the lower deck) magical trip across the water to visit Santa and Mrs. Claus (strike Mrs. Claus, she's been replaced by a mute teenage elf) at the North Pole workshop (which is basically a tiny fake house on a small dock). On the way enjoy a Christmas movie, like Rudolph, Charlie Brown, or the Muppets (no audio, only visual)! Every child is guaranteed to make Santa's nice list (because an elf walks around on the boat and asks for the kids' names and writes them down) and Santa personally reads each name from the list aloud (he also dances the hokey pokey with the teenage elf in the 5 minutes you see him)! See the World's Tallest Christmas Tree (from the front deck of the boat, but no one gets off the boat at all) on display at the North Pole, laden with over 30,000 sparkling LED lights and rising to 161 ft, more than twice the height of New York City's famous Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree (but you will have no real perception of this, because you're so far away from it)! Bring the family (make sure it's been a while since they had dinner so you can spend extra money on the hot cocoa ($1.50/cup) and cookies (a whopping $2.75 each), bring the camera, bring the smiles (Levi forgot his), as we all share in the Christmas spirit. Kids 12 and under ride free! (everyone else is $17.95 each)
But is the point of this post really about how realistic Santa and the North Pole are? No, not really.
It is that I took these three boys who I so dearly love, out to enjoy some time with them, and we did enjoy our time together, and they will likely always remember that night thanks to the fact that we got Wendy's fries and frosties afterward.
Waiting at the boardwalk to board the cruise boat.
On the boat.
They just don't come much more excitable than this boy.
But he was all smiles at Wendy's.
Santa
The giant tree that is not a real tree...
The other lights that made up the North Pole village.
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