In Poland kids celebrate Christmas with Santa bringing them gifts, but you cannot go "visit" Santa at a mall or store like you can in America. So, when we hit the ground in the US a "Santa Visit" for Finn was at the top of my list. We were staying right downtown....so we naively headed over to Macy's on State Street a few days before Christmas and found a line that was 3.5 hours long to see Santa. Apparently this Santa is one of the best and a lot of Chicagoans have long family histories of visiting Santa here. So, we tried again the next morning when he arrived at 8:00 am. Finn was up bright and early due to jet lag so it was perfect! We were in line by 7:45am and got to see Santa shortly after 8:00am. When we left 20 minutes later the line had grown to a 1.5 hour wait. I was thrilled to get Finn's first pic with Santa...and this Santa even spoke a few words of Polish!
