I think visiting Santa in the mall is fun. I think dressing up your kids for the yearly picture with Santa is fun. I DO NOT think the digital camera with instant viewable prints is fun. What ever happened to the time of: smile! click. k, you are taking a picture with Santa in the mall, you are done. Nope, not anymore. Instead: smile! chin down, open your eyes, smile! click. smile! chin down. mom, do you want to go move his chin down. smile! click. (pause from picture taking here - parent moves to tv screen to view the pictures, decides that is not a great smile, start over). smile! smile! waive little Elmo. click. open your eyes a little more. smile! click. and it goes on and on and on and on.
We waited in line to see Santa tonight for Owen. I begged and pleaded beforehand. I offered bribes of toys, books, cinnamon rolls, and ice cream. We waited for 40 minutes. We waited in line to see Santa for 40 minutes to tell him Owen wanted a pirate ship, a treasure and a little boat. Then we were on our way.
I do believe that if you are paying a million dollars for your picture it should be a good one, but I think the system should be revamped.
1. Lower the price, give you two shots, take what you get.
2. Have two Santas in the mall. Picture Santa and What do you Want Santa. (might confuse the kids a bit, but hey, no 40 minute line for a 30 second visit.)
1 comment:
They should do the Disneyland take with Mickey, when you go to his house there are actually 4 Mickey's that you could see, but each line goes to a different room and the kids are non the wiser. It speeds things along nicley. Also they don't care if you take a pic with your own camera. Jeesh when did seeing santa become such a greedy thing for the mall folk? Shouldn't they provide Santa just because you are there shopping and not just to get a profit?
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