The event will start at 3:00 with downtown shopping from 3:00 to 5:30, a free showing of Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure at the youth theater at 4:00 p.m., food court , carriage rides and North Pole post office at 5:30, a special reading of The Polar Express at 6:00, Santa arrival and stocking stroll at 6:30, hey caroling Santa Serenade at 7:45 followed by the tree lighting in Mankato City Park