A winter wonderland

Marisca has an advent calendar of activities.  Of course, as Elspeth is such a wonderful mum.  She loves her advent calendar of activities, whether it's sticking nativity stickers in a book, baking biscuits, or going to a Winter Wonderland - which is exactly what we did on Sunday.

Had we not been in the mood, Stockeld Park would have been more Hibernal Hell than Winter Wonderland - countless families with small children getting quite irate about the 4 hour queue to see Santa.  Luckily Marisca is not really into Santa, or at least not while he's there in person to be shy about, so we just went for a walk through the enchanted forest instead.  We had a whale of a time on the 1.2km walk, looking at the various lit creatures, playing on tea cups and rope bridges, and enjoying watching the people doing fake cross country skiing, or rather more enjoying them failing to do so.

And Marisca got a biscuit the size of her head.