Holidays are here! (a week ago)

School has finished here for another year.

One whole school year has passed and both my girlies thrived under the care and guidance of their teacher Miss Morton and aide Miss Guthrie. Ignore the Miss label, they may be Mrs or Miss, it doesnt matter all teachers are called Miss or Mr. No other title. weird.

Anywho, as usual i digress.

We are three days into our 6 week summer holiday break. At least i think its 6 weeks. i havent counted properly and if its longer I dont want to know. if its shorter i will be pleasently surprised. Im like that.

Monday was spent mostly at home, with a brief visit to the library to pick up some reading distractions.  Miss B, ever my director, was most displeased and lamented about the B O R I N G day we were having every.five.minutes!

i discovered something on Monday. if my kids are bored they want to eat. which is not a good thing when your on a budget and trying to scrape money together for christmas.

Tuesday was awesome. Which is what this post is actually about. Our awesome day.

Lets just pretend we started here ok.

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Adventures to the city in search of Santa and "THE BIGGEST CHRISTMAS TREE IN THE WORLD!"

 

We live in the southern suburbs of Brisbane, an hours train ride to the city. 35 minutes in the car, but of course thats no fun when your a kid. So along with two other friends and our kids we set off on our first adventure of these holidays.

The search for Santa

Theres something about the city
The hustle and bustle
suit clad bodies and high heeled feet,
buskers,
little coffee stalls,

and of course BIG department stores.

MYER is where we found Santa.

Their window displays are awesome.

I loved that the Navity scene was in window number 1.
The christmas story has not been totally lost you know.

Each window was crowded with children wide eyed and opened mouthed.
It truely is magical and fun.

Finding Santa took some time. First we had to go to the forth floor,

write a letter to Santa, take a train ride through santa land

and then you could meet him. After of course going through two waiting rooms each watched over by Santas very friendly helpers.

We tried to get a photo of Boyboy on santas knee but he took one look at the jolly man and was having none of it.
Rudolf would have to do.
The girlies on the other hand totally believed they met the real santa. Beautiful.

the tree was my REAL reason for our trip.
I wanted to see her.

She really is so beautiful
and BIG.
So very very cool.

At night she is even more magestic,
clothed in blue sparkly lights
she is a sight to behold.

How does your city decorate for Christmas?

Are you going to see the sights?