Emily and Louie were really looking forward to Christmas and Santa's visit this year. Since October, both of them have been talking about things that they wanted from Santa.
Then, in early December, we went to see Santa at the University Club only to find out that both of them had completely changed their minds on what they wanted from the big fat man in the red suit...
Emily told Santa that she wanted a car and Louie wanted a Millenium Falcon.
So, Santa went to work with trying to figure out what sort of CAR to bring Emily and also went to work searching for a Millenium Falcon.
I was secretly hoping that Louie would change his mind back to the crashing cars thing that he had been saying for MONTHS....and Emily change to anything but a CAR.
Well, as we got closer to Christmas, both kept talking about their respective toys.
The week before Christmas, panic set in! The only Millenium Falcon to be found on the internets was a 1500 piece LEGO set for $500. Ummmm, no. It became very clear to me that LEGO was the only toy company licensed to make Star Wars themed toys now. There wasn't a Millenium Falcon to be found, anywhere.
So, in my frustration, I posted on Facebook asking how I was going to give my child the ONE thing that he wanted, a Millenium Falcon? THANK GOODNESS, people actually read what I post on Facebook! One of my friends, Trinity Reyes, sent me a link to a Millenium Falcon that she found on Craigslist (in Seattle)....I immediately wrote to the seller and heard nothing; I'm pretty sure they wanted no part of packing and shipping their toy.
If I remember correctly, this originally was sent to me on December 21!
Time was ticking.....I sent a message to one of my classmates, Gael Fashingbauer Cooper and my cousin, Shannon Druffel Ressler who both live in Seattle, hoping that one of them might be able to help get my hands on that Millenium Falcon.
Unfortunately, Gael was busy with work and had deadlines to meet. Fortunately, Shannon is the BEST cousin on the planet and contacted the seller and met her at the dentist office the next morning, December 22...tick tock.
Shannon totally rocked! and had the Millenium Falcon in her hands and was off to Fed Ex to get it sent to me in Minnesota!
The Millenium Falcon arrived the next day.....
Emily and Louie were exhausted from Christmas eve at Grandma's. Louie didn't want to get up the next morning! So, Emily waited patiently for him to get up!
Emily didn't get a car, but she did get a horse drawn princess carriage that goes with the Take-A-Long Princess Castle that she got and she was thrilled!
