Snow in The Woodlands?

Yesterday we went to Market Street here in The Woodlands because there was going to be "snow" for the kids to play in and reindeer for them to pet. We envisioned a winter wonderland. Of course we knew the "snow" would be blown by an ice truck which is what they do at ELP for the kids each year in January. What we didn't know is that the area they did this in would be about 20 feet by 20 feet. I thought that the entire grassy park area would be full of snow. The festivities were to be from noon to 6 pm and we decided to get there early at 11:30 or so. When we arrived the snowy area was a madhouse and the edges of the area were watery slush. There were so many people crammed in the small space hurling ice balls at each other. Morgan and Adrian went for a few minutes but it was too overwhelming with ice rockets coming down at random from the sky. So we decided to go pet some reindeer. Unfortunately that set up wasn't much better. They had 2 reindeer in a tiny corral with people squeezed together around the periphery reaching in trying to pet the poor animals. I had imagined a larger corral where they would have let in a few kids at a time to actually get close and pet them but that wasn't the case. Luckily Morgan's long arm allowed her to pet one of the reindeer but Adrian wasn't as fortunate. We didn't stay there long. I was very disappointed after the hype that had been built up but the kids said they had "a little fun". At least it provided a few more photo opportunities.


Morgan pegs Adrian


Adrian retaliates


In front of the big tree


Giddy-up donkey!

Last night the kids and I decided to make pomanders. I made a star on one side of my orange and a crescent moon on the other. Morgan made a smiley face on each side of hers. Adrian put cloves on randomly around his and said that they were all noses.