Santa Train

{November 17th}

We met up with some sweet friends to ride the Santa Train to the North Pole.

It's basically the COG railway that goes up Pikes Peak, but they turn it into the 'Santa Train' around Christmas and only run it about half way up.

It's a bit pricey for what you get, but Braxton had fun and I'm really glad we did it with him.

It's about a 30-45 min ride up to the North Pole and Santa, Mrs Claus and their elves ride with you and sing Christmas carols.

At the top, you get to sit on Santas lap and they give you cookies and hot chocolate and then head back down.

Braxton was soo excited to ride the big choo choo and was in total AWE the whole way up.

He just sat there next to Brian, so quiet, with huge eyes.

He freaked when he met Santa last  year but he was very brave this year!

You could tell he was super nervous and still clung to Brian, but he still waved, sat on his lap and even told him what he wanted for Christmas (cars, tools, and books)

(the lighting in the house up top was so funky so the exposure of these pics is all over the place.
Even though it looks bad, I still love this pic of us with Santa)

And my most favorite pic of the day…