Uno’s Garden - Myers Christmas Windows

Nov 28th, 2007 by mollyfud | 0

Hi I am Patrick’s dad and I had this report about a day out we had. Today Patrick had the day off school due to a Curriculum day. I took the day off work and the whole family decide to take a trip into the city to go see the Myer Christmas windows, to ride the Christmas train and of course, to see Santa.

After getting organised, driving it to the city and finding a car park, we made our way first to the Christmas train to have a ride and write an email to Santa.

Patrick and his brother Alex got their golden tickets and had a ride on the train. After Lidia (aka Mum) took some photos in front of the beautiful Christmas tree that was in the train area.

Next we went to send an email to Santa only to find that his email service was down. We decide to move up to see Santa. After a reasonably short wait on in line, we got to see Santa. This was my first time seeing Santa but the boys had been the previous few years. Patrick had been asking me if I would be patting the reindeer and I wondered what he meant. Going in, I saw models of reindeer heads on the wall and wondered if I was missing the chance to pat them, but once I got into Santa’s room, I saw what all the fuss was about as there was a sleeping Rudolf sitting next to Santa’s chair.

Santa was in great form and the boys sat up on his chair and had a photo with him. Alex let him know that he had a sore tummy and Patrick passed on his request for Christmas.

We then decided to go see the Myers Windows, a Melbourne Christmas tradition. This year the windows where based on the Graeme Base book, Uno’s Garden. The boys where amazed at the scenes that had been put together and we decided to get some lunch and then see if we could pick up the book at Borders that was near by. We couldn’t at the city store but was able to get it at Chadstone.

We all had a great day and Patrick took the book and did a Show and tell on it when he returned to School. Below are some photos that we took but more are available here.