The Polar Express

I need to preface this post: The night of the Polar Express my camera was slowly dying. I didn't know then that my lens was going to be completely useless and need replaced (totally bummed!!!) this week, but it wasn't working so my shots were completely hit or miss. Even so, I managed to still take 135 shots!

So anyways, there is a scenic railways near us that does the coolest thing in December. They turn their train into the Polar Express and take the kids to the North Pole! The kids wear the Christmas jammies and they read the story and act out the whole book! It is really popular and was hard to get tickets for. You enter into a lottery in October and hope you get tickets. We have been lucky to get to go every year. This year Keith's dad was able to just get enough tickets for the grandkids, my sister-in-law, mother-in-law and myself. We had so much fun.

It is especially fun because Ty loves the Polar Express movie and book and Carter is absolutely obsessed with trains, so we are really excited for this night!


The kids are greeted on the trains by elves who give them "Elf Helper" name tags and elf dust.



The boys loved hanging out with their cousins.




Grandpa surprised them by ordering each grandkid a box set with the book, cd and bell for the elves to deliver while on the train.




They even punch your ticket, just like on the movie.




Carter was so interested in what was going by outside. He was so excited to be on a train. He just tried to take it all in.

Here are the kids looking out the window when we arrived at the North Pole. There were a bunch of elves waving, reindeer, and even Santa.

Santa even comes on the train to give each child a bell from his sleigh. Ty asked for a pogo stick for Christmas.

This was Carter's reaction to Santa.

Carter had to call his dad to tell him all about it.

Here is us saying good-bye to the "choo-choo."