The Polar Bear Express

After trying to get tickets last year to ride the Polar Bear Express train, we bought tickets the day they went on sale this year.  :)    We decided to do an early morning trip in hopes of catching the kids at their best.  ;)   Maybe next year when they're a little older we can go in the evening.   All in all, we had a good time and Brendan really enjoyed the train ride, as we figured.  Mamaw even got to come along with us.

Having a blast on the train!

The train staff passed out juice and cookies for everyone. Brendan had two cookies during the train ride!

Katelyn was much more into the stuffed bear and the juice than the cookie.   She was however scared of the Polar Bear that was greeting the passengers with Santa.  She wanted nothing to do with him!

Brendan was all about telling Santa what trains/freight cars he wanted him to bring this year.  In a fast & somewhat high pitched voice, "Bash, Dash, Ferdinand, Donald, Douglas, three orange flatbeds, and 2 blue freight cars..." or something along those lines.  The engines I usually understand, but I'm not sure where he's seen all the flat beds & freight cars that he talks about. 

An almost family picture.  :)

Happy Girl!

Checking out the "blue" engine after our ride. 

Talking with one of the volunteers. 

We saw some people getting into the "black & yellow engine" and asked if we could too.  Sure enough, they let us climb aboard!  The engineer actually carried Brendan up to the front of the train.  Brendan was in hog heaven!

He could hardly sit still he was so excited...not that the kid really ever sits still. ;)

Pointing and talking about the signals that go across 116th Street.

I think that this just might have made Brendan's year!