With all of our family in town for Micah's birthday, we decided to drive out to Williams (only about 20 minutes away) and get on the Polar Express. The Grand Canyon Railway runs trains between Williams and the Grand Canyon all year long, but each November thru January they run a special train, the Polar Express, for kids and families to venture to the North Pole and meet Santa. They serve cookies and hot chocolate during the train ride, sing Christmas Carols, read the book "The Polar Express" and Santa even comes on board to give each child a sleigh bell. We had a fabulous time! Micah was absolutely mesmerized, as was his cousin Nathan. Micah has been singing Jingle Bells almost non-stop since the trip ended! Caden was actually very interested in all of the commotion, but fell asleep for the ride home from the North Pole. He'll love it when we go again a few years from now!
Since we got such an early start on Christmas, it is hard to fight the urge to just go ahead and put up our Christmas Tree right now! We will probably hold off until Thanksgiving weekend and just appease ourselves with carols in the meantime.
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