Back in July one of my co-workers told me about the Polar Express at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum. It is such a popular event that you have to buy tickets in the summer because it sells out. I decided to buy 3 tickets and figured this would be something fun that we would do with Haines after Sarah was born. We arranged for Adelaide to keep Sarah that night so we could take Haines out for a night of fun by himself. Haines started watching the Polar Express Thanksgiving weekend at my parents house and has loved it ever since. I bought him the movie and he has probably watched it at least 20 times.
Our tickets were for Friday, December 9th at 6:30pm. I was not back at work yet so Clint and I went to pick Haines up early to drive up and miss the traffic. We were going to go to dinner somewhere along the way. We picked Haines up from school and headed straight for Calera. We had plans to go to eat at Zaxby’s in Calera, but could not find it so we ended up at Hardee’s (not my fave). Anyway, there was not much to choose from. Good thing we got there early because it was the slowest fast food I have ever gotten! It took us at least 20-30 minutes to get our food. We finally got it and had to scarf it down and left for the train ride. We made it just in time. Haines was so excited about his ticket. He wanted to make sure he held on tight to it so the wolves would not get it!
We rode on the train to the North Pole and Santa and Mrs. Claus got on the train. We also had hot chocolate (aka chocolate milk) and cookies along the way. My only complaint is that you could not hear the book being read over the intercom. All of the kids were so excited on the train, it made it so much fun. The Elves delivered everyone a key to Santa’s train and we also got a snowflake ornament that says “North Pole Express”. I think they had some copyright issues since they called it North Pole Express instead of Polar Express. Also, I was expecting a bell instead of a key, but it was all fun despite the differences (and Haines did not notice).
He cried when we had to leave because all he wanted to do was to ride on the other trains. We will definitely have to go back to visit the museum again, it looked really cool. Haines was in heaven with all the cool trains!
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