December 20, 2011 Day 20

Christmas in the Park.......

What a wonderful thing that McInturf Realty does for the community.  If you have never been to Christmas in the Park, you need to experience it.  There is real animals, people making ice sculptures, Santa, Mrs. Claus, Christmas lights everywhere, sleigh rides through story book lane, hot coco, carolers, people dressed up like characters handing out candy, and of course most of the rides are open.  The only down fall??? There is a million people there!

My father in law Bud is the Manager of the rides out at the park.  So he is also in charge of getting all of the help lined up to run the rides for Christmas in the park.  My kids LOVE to help papa in the summer.  This year Olivia got to help with Christmas in the Park.  She even got a name tag that read "Olivia Schoelles, Assistant Manager."  She thought that was really neat.  She had a blast.  Thanks Papa Bud!

Owen had a blast playing with his friends.  Even though it was tough to watch the kids because it was dark and crowded, they still had a great time playing at the park!

Owen waiting in line for the train.  Us parents were no rookies at this.  One of us would wait in line then when we got close, we would just let the kids jump in line.  Then another parent would wait in the next line.  It worked great for us.  Not sure it was well received by the people behind us.  We went to Disney in May and the lines in Disney were no where near as long as Christmas in the Park lines! But the kids enjoyed it so.....WORTH IT!