I try every year to get our shopping done early and every year it's the same thing: when those final shopping days come around and everyone and their monkey's uncle has descended up on the mall, I find myself feeling lonely and left out of the spirit. So, with only a few extra pieces left to pick up, Calvin and I donned our santa hat and reindeer antlers and spent the better part of the day among the throngs. We stopped by to see Santa, who, for the first year in all the years I've been doing this, wouldn't let me take any pictures with my own camera even if I purchased one of their crummy ones, so we took pictures with the nearby woodland animals instead.
I asked Calvin to think of something funny...
No, Calvin, I said think of something funny, not do something funny
That's better.