Westlake Carousel

This morning Mommy, Daddy and I saddled up and headed downtown to Nordstrom with the singular objective of having my annual photograph with Santa. Despite arriving at the relativley early hour of 8:30AM, the queue was over an hour and a half. Um, not going to happen.

We kept our chins up and visited Anne-Marie at her Starbucks in Two Union Square. As you may know, she is expecting in early January and is looking fantastic! We had a nice hang session while Annie gobbled down her sensible lunch before heading to Banana Republic for Daddy to procure some gloves due to the weather recently getting genuinely cold. All of these were stop-gap measures by the parentals to kill time in wait for the Westlake Center holiday carousel to open up. They had been hyping me up for the Santa visit all week and could see I was devasted when they pulled the plug on this attempt. A few spins on the carousel was the least they could do to lift a girls spirit, right?!

In crude cameraphone form, here is a little girl's sheer delight...