Prescott Place

For three years now, Nolan and Melanie have visited Santa at Northpark without me. This year, I decided to take the day off to see the spectacle for myself. The original plan was to spend the morning at Northpark and have the afternoon free to finish up decorating for Christmas. That was the plan at least. We decided it would be best for Nolan and I to head down to Northpark early to get our number as soon as possible – Melanie and Griffin would head down when we were about an hour away from our number being called. In theory it was a good plan. In theory, we could get it all done by noon.

I grabbed Nolan and headed for the door just after 8:30am. He was in a good mood and seemed excited to see Santa. We were running late, but I thought we’d be ok because rush hour would be over by the time we got to 75. Three traffic jams and and hour later, we finally arrived at Northpark. It was just before 10am. Maybe we’d still be make it out by noon. We breezed through Nordstrom and made our way to Santa’s temporarily leased retail space Village, which is located directly across from the Apple Store.

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