Visiting the Ice Princess

While we saw Santa at the free town tree lighting earlier this month, it's not the "official" Santa you can see at the mall.  So when my co-worker told me her daughter got a job as the Ice Princess at the mall, we made the trip to see her - and well Santa of course.  See my co-worker's daughter has babysat for Drew on several occasions and he refers to her as "Big Audrey" all 5 feet and 90 pounds of her.

So off to the Ice Palace we go!


So despite waiting an excruciating amount of time on a Sunday night no less, we finally get to enter the second phase of the Ice Palace - that's code for yet another line.


Thankfully this part of the line had some fun hands on things for the kids.  You know to help alleviate the whining and the "how much longer is this line" kind of questions.  Drew got to put his hand into real ice where they had polar bear footprints.

And then he could get measured next to a polar bear....



Not even Daddy comes close to the bear's size when he's standing up.


And then we get inside the ice palace where it's "snowing".  The kids loved the powdery stuff, but you could tell the parents hated it. 



The darned snow stuck to every article of clothing on you and your kid just before s/he sees Santa and pays a ridiculous amount of money for one photo (although they force you to buy a package - you can't get just one copy of a photo).


My camera didn't focus well on the photo... I promise the real one isn't blurry.


And then after you finally visit Santa (over an hour after we arrived) we finally get to see who we we really came for  - the Ice Princess.


Drew and Big Audrey.  We loved that photo!

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