++Santa Train++

Susan and Brett tipped us off to a great Pacific Northwest treasure--the Santa Train. It's a simple concept: ride a train to a depot, get off, visit Santa, have a cookie and ride it back. What under-fiver wouldn't think that was fabulous?
Here are the troops approaching the train. What a beautiful snowy-kissed sunny winter day. Ha! Remember we are in Washington so it was a dreary, gray, drizzly winter day.
We boarded the train and found some seatmates.

Even Claire enjoyed riding unrestrained..

This was as close as Wyatt got to Santa (Claire's traumatic experience was already posted).

The crew, listening to the tuba band play Christmas carols and waiting to board the train.