The Polar Express

Most of our friends here in AZ have been to The Polar Express train at Christmastime. We didn't go last year as Miles was so little, but we made reservations for this year last December. It fills up FAST!! We went with our friends the Bowmans. They basically recreate the book. You leave the train depot, you get hot chocolate and cookies on the train, travel to the "North Pole" and Santa gets on the train, then he goes through each car and every child gets a bell. Then there's singing of Christmas carols and that's about it. It was fun, but none of us were sure it was worth the money we spent on it. THe kids enjoyed it, but Will said his favorite part was the hot chocolate. Let me tell ya--it would have been a whole lot cheaper to buy a box of Swiss Miss and have it here at home! It was a fun experience, and we will probably do it one more time when Miles is older, but it's definitely not something we're going to do every year! Maybe if there'd been snow it would have been more authentic!