Monday, December 15, 2008

Do You Believe?

Over the weekend we went up North and stayed with my in-laws in Flagstaff. On Sat night we went on the Polar Express to the North Pole to see Santa. It was the kids first time on the Polar Express. It was a rainy/windy night so unfortunately, I wasn't able to get really good pictures of the train or outside. The kids refused to take off their coats/hats/gloves while on the train (although Tatum did take off her hat when Santa came on the train).

So when Santa came on the train, he looked right at at Tatum and instead of asking her what she wanted, he asked her if she ate her vegetables. Her eyes about bulged out of her head as she quietly answered, "yes". She is not a good veggie eater and she knows that. I always tell her that Santa is watching, so it was pretty ironic that he asked her that question. So maybe she will start to eat her veggies from now on now that Santa really is watching.

Unfortunately for Corbin, it was not his night :(. As soon as we got to the North Pole, he was in full on melt down mode and missed out on it (for some reason I thought we got to get out of the train and walk around, but we stayed on). The North Pole part only lasts for about a min with a few lights and you see Santa waving outside until he made his way on the train. He was much happier once he received his bell though. The whole train ride from start to finish is about a half an hour. We all wore our jammies just like the movie. So much fun to wear jammies in public lol.

I was glad we had the opportunity to go and it will be a memory we will never forget.


2 comments:

The Momma said...

We went last year and the kids had so much fun, they are upset that we can't go this year because of the baby but we will probably go back next year. I also thought that we got off at the north pole. It was pretty fun anyways I guess!

arizonamama said...

I LOVE that Santa asked Tatum about eating her vegetables. That is classic! Now if only I could get Santa to ask my kids if they clean up after themselves, don't hit each other and keep track of their hats/gloves on the school bus, that would be perfect. It sounds like a lot of fun. I'd love to do that some year soon...