Santa and shopping

Each year before Christmas, Pete and I like to plan a shopping date and work on tackling some of those last minute gifts off our lists.  We make a day of it, and this year headed to downtown Minneapolis starting with lunch at Rock Bottom Brewery (a spot we haven't been to in many years.)

After lunch, we walked over to Macy's and went up to the 8th floor auditorium to walk through Santaland and the magical elf village.

We may have stopped to see Santa. :)

After some some shopping downtown, we headed over to Mall of America to finish off our list.

We finished the day with a stop by a local church to see up close this beautiful lighted Christmas tree.

It was a fun day and a perfect way to finish up our shopping.