Cambria & Nathan got to visit Santa this year at the Fonthill tile works museum in Doylestown. Each December they have a little Christmas festival and you get to tour the first floor of the Henry Mercer (1856-1930) mansion, designed completely out of reinforced concrete. Thousands of his colorful storytelling tiles adorn the walls. He was an eccentric and brilliant man. The mansion reminded me a little bit of the Sarah Winchester mansion in California. Continuously being added to, with small round staircases everywhere and kind of like a maze-like.
We also got a free tour of the tile works museum next door. In each building winter refreshments were handed out, and at the end kids got to sit on Santa's lap with a beautiful christmas tree and real fire in the background.
The kids did great. Cambria is in the "doesn't-like-to-be-left-with-strangers" phase, but I managed to snap this photo quickly before she started to whine. It probably helped that little Nathan was so easygoing about the whole thing.
Here are some pictures of what the mansion looks like. (I didn't take these)
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