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Erin had been so excited to take the kids on the “Santa Train” in North Bend this weekend. Apparently it is very popular because the tickets have been sold out now for a couple of weeks, so we kind of expected a cool adventure for the kids. Wow, were we wrong.

I’m not going to whine, but I couldn’t believe how poorly the thing was put together. First you wait in line outside (and it didn’t help that it was in the 30s with high wind). Then you get onto the antique train (putting it politely). Then 20 minutes later you reach your destination in Snoqualmie. I kind of thought that they would organize something on the train to entertain the kids, but they didn’t. So you get to the train station and wait in another line (mostly outdoors) to wait for Santa. The geniuses that put the event together decided it would be neat to give all the kids train whistles after they saw Santa, so now add sleet, high wind and 50 kids blowing these whistles while you are huddled inside an old train car sipping crappy coffee, hot chocolate and cookies. Now imagine having to wait almost another hour with nothing to do, so you can catch the ghetto train back to North Bend. But I’m not bitter or anything I knew it was a bad omen at the beginning when everyone getting off the earlier train looked miserable. But I have to remind myself if was for the kids….and I guess I could get over it if they had actually had a good time.

So if you are reading this and have tickets for the upcoming dates, you might want to think about putting them up on Craigs list and take the tots to Nordstroms to see Santa.

Aren’t the holidays fun?

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