Winter Wonderland!

Wednesday we ventured out to Santa's wonderland. If you have not been it's a most! It's located in Bryan and very much worth the drive. Shane had the whole day off so after lunch we hopped into the van - 1st road trip in the new van - and headed out. Now Santa's town doesn't open until 6:00 but Shane wanted to get ahead of all the traffic so we headed out of Houston by 2:00. We had time to kill so Shane found this really neat little stop along the way Martha's in Navasota on the internet a few days ago - so we thought we stop there, have some treats and coco and kill some time. Well after driving around the small town of Navasota a few times - we settled on a small cafe having never found Martha's. Brownie, ice cream, coco and coffee - yummy stuff and snow!! It started snowing by the time we hit Fairfield. Grace was so excited - and I have to say so was I. Having grown up in VA, I love the snow. And there's just something about the first snow.... so we finish up and head back out to highway 6 - headed toward Bryan and there's Martha's... next time Martha next time! We arrive at Santa's Wonderland about 45 min early - which usually is a good thing cause they are ALWAYS so busy - not so much on a snow filled 28 degree full moon night. Oh well more coco and fun for us. We see Santa - without a line! So much fun! We ride the hayride - very very cold but so worth it! Poor Alex looked like the little brother from the Christmas Story - Randy. He couldnt put his arms down and everytime he went to look at something his eyes were covered by the scarf- lol! But he loved the snow!! He kept leaning back and letting the snow fall onto his face - very exciting. Grace made snow balls and a little snow man. We went into the petting zoo, had a cowboys dinner and went into the cute little shops. By 8:30 we were done and cold. We bundled up in the van and headed out. The kids crashed and we hit detour after detour thanks to the snow. We hit LaPorte at 11:30 and saw that it snowed just as much at home as it did in Bryan! Wonderful memories were made and some continued! Oh what fun......