The Santa Train

This year our good friends Melanie, Ryan, Makena, and Brody joined us for our annual trip to ride the "Santa Train." At a nearby (relatively) park, you can ride the train through the park past lighted Christmas decorations. Halfway around the Santa train stops and you disembark to visit Santa Claus. Then you get back on the train and go through a tunnel of lights as you head back to the station. It's a lot of fun...that is until someone gets hurt. Unfortunately, as we were waiting the kids were playing and Makena bonked her chin. As the wound was somewhat gaping and reminded Melanie of Ryan's own recent trip to the ER, it was decided that they would take Makena to the ER just to be safe. Makena was fine thankfully! As we were at basically the front of the line when all this happened, Connor and Abby still saw Santa. Connor was very excited and told Santa he wanted...oh come on take a guess here...trains! No surprise that Abby wanted no part of Santa and cried. So while the excursion was not a complete failure, it was certainly a bummer that Makena was hurt. (We just felt awful!) Next year I hope we can all go again without any injuries!