We loaded up the car on Friday afternoon to head North up to Williams for the Polar Express! I know it is a bit early, but it's really hard to get tickets and it just so happened that it worked out for this weekend, so we jumped on the chance! The boys were SO excited! We get on the highway and not 5 miles into our drive, we hit a standstill of epic proportions. A "we moved 1 mile in the last hour" kind of standstill. We had no information on what is was, where it was, or how bad. We could walk to our house from where we were. People were getting out of their cars. It was bad. The car ahead said the accident was a good 15 miles away! We watched the minutes tick away and it finally occurred to us that we would miss the train if we waited another second. The boys did great (DVD player helped greatly with that!). So my road savvy husband turned us around and took a detour of his own invention. It was long, it was twisty, it was a close call, but we made it! Just enough time to pick up our tickets and get on board! I still cannot believe we made it! We didn't get to change into our jammies, but no one seemed to mind. Hearing Everett say, "Thank you for taking me on the Polar Express!" was worth all the madness!
Lionel slept through most of last year's trip, so it was interesting to see the little man come alive on the train! And boy did he! It's such a cute idea and I just loved it. Although we are a bit far from Christmas, it was nice to sing Christmas songs and see the excitement of all the kids.
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