It’s December 14th, there’s only 11 days until Christmas is here.
If you’ve been reading this blog for the last few years, you know we need to get out to Northwoods Mall and take a moment to pause with Mr. Claus and get our picture taken for the MBIP Christmas Card!
Okay, here we are at the Northwoods Mall. I can’t believe they’ve been here for 50 years now! This place has been welcoming a lot of local businesses and I appreciate that! It’s nice to see a mall break somewhat with the chain stores!
Here we are inside and there’s Santa’s village ahead, but let’s stop at one of those aforementioned local shops before we enter the Santa’s headquarters.
Here’s Jane’s Sweet Addictions, a local popcorn and candy shop located inside of The Northwoods Mall.
And there’s the owner of Jane’s Sweet Addictions, Janey Scott! She picked out some sweet and salty treats to give to Santa on this holiday visit!
And here we go visiting Santa in his Christmas Village in the center of Northwoods Mall. That’s Coshira welcoming us inside of this holiday village!
And there’s Santa himself waving to us and Kayla was working the desk and told us she’d take this year’s holiday photo.
Everyone here is so friendly and fun!
There’s Santa opening up the gifts from Jane’s Sweet Addictions and he loved what Janey picked out for him this year!
I took a photo of Santa and Kayla before she turned the camera on Santa and myself for this year’s MBIP Christmas card photo.
And here we go with this year’s festive photo and holiday card for all of you!
Ho, ho and ho! Merry Christmas from myself and Santa! What a great photo!
Thanks to Kayla and Santa for being such great holiday sports!
Here’s some aerial shots of Santa’s Village I took from the second floor after we shot my holiday photo for our Christmas card.
You should stop on out at Northwoods Mall and say hi to Santa and see this festive village during the holiday season!
Here’s the Santa schedule for Northwood’s Mall.
Ho, ho and ho!
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2200 W. War Memorial Drive
Peoria
309-319-8419
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Related Posts: The Pause With Mr. Claus: 2022, 2019 and 2018.
I pause because…is zat you, Santa Claus?
Surprise link, click on it…I dare you!
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Bonus Link: The New NOION Cities Single On YouTube!
NOION Cities is a talented musical duo and they’re friends of mine. They provided the live music for the Chicago edition of The Marty Monologues back in 2019.
They’ve just released a fantastic new single called, “Curb” and you need to hear this original tune. You can click here or on the art below and listen to it on their YouTube channel. Be sure to “like” the song and subscribe to their channel which has many other wonderful and original songs on it. Consider this an early Christmas gift from NOION Cities!
