Our Jones Family Experience: Celebrating with Santa

Even though we have a season pass to Santa’s Village, we had not been yet this year. We decided that Malia’s birthday would be a great day to visit. Since it is a bit of a drive, we only let Malia open two presents before leaving.

Once we arrived at Santa’s Village, we started on the rides right away. Santa’s Village is great for the girls because there are only two rides Malia is too small to ride and Hadley can ride anything with a parent.

Waiting to ride the carousel

The elf's shirt says "I was this tall at Santa's Village."

Driving the Antique Car

Riding in the backseat of the Antique Car

We also stopped by the Reindeer Rendezvous where we got to feed and pet Santa’s reindeer.

I love how Malia always opens her mouth when feeding an animal

After lunch, we headed to the water area of the park. The girls were not a fan of the larger water area, but they loved the pop up sprayers.

She is so independent

Sitting on a sprayer

Before leaving the park, we stopped by Santa’s house for a visit. Santa was having a late lunch, so we listened to story time and ate some doe-nuts while waiting. Before long, we headed into Santa’s house to see the big guy. The girls didn’t know what they wanted for Christmas, but they still enjoyed sitting on his lap.

Eating doe-nuts while listening to story time

Two candy canes from Santa!

We also stopped by the Elves house and rode the carousel one more time before leaving.

For dinner we decided to go to Applebee’s because Malia loves it when they sing to people for their birthday. When we heard the servers headed our way singing, I started to put Malia in the booth with me. It was bad timing though as she announced she was “pooin”.