The day continues....

After dealing with all of the horrible car stuff at the Saturn dealer I had to leave to pick up hubby from work so we could take the girls to the Polar Express Train Ride. I left the dealer at 4:15 to drive ten miles to hubby's work. You know how long that took me? 45 MINUTES!!! Darn traffic. So I arrived at hubby's work by 5 and we headed off to the train station which was about 17 miles away. I was really nervous that we would make it on time for the 6:00 train ride we were scheduled for. This was peek traffic. It took us an hour to get there. We were 3 minutes late for our train ride. The tickets specifically state if you miss your train you are out of luck. No refunds or exchanges. I was so sad after having such a bad day.

Guess what though? I think because hubby was on crutches and I blamed that for the reason that we were late, they let us take the next train at 7:30. I was so relieved and it just helped to end what had been a horrible day. Do you know what was the nicest thing they did for us? Aly was crying because she was scared to go on the train. She thought it would be like the movie and the train would be like a rollar coaster and go on ice and slide all around. The train conductor was so sweat and tried to help her feel better. They even went in the staff lounge and got us some free sandwiches to eat.

















Here we are on the train ride all scrunched together. The second picture shows one of the dancers that came through the train dancing and holding a tray of cookies.





















After the dancers came through the women in white chef hats passed out hot chocolate and cookies. Once we reached the North Pole Santa came aboard and passed out a bell to each of the children.














Check out tired little KK with her bell. She didn't start taking a liking to it until she heard ALL of the children on the train ringing their bells. All in all we had a good time and I think Aly especially enjoyed it. It was a nice ending to a hard day!