Holiday Express

We went on our first annual ride on the Holiday Express. It's an old steam engine that goes from Oaks park, down towards OMSI, and back again. Overall, a 50 minute ride that included Santa, and more importantly free candy canes. We went the first weekend it was running, so not very busy. This lead to many volunteers talking to us and educating us about steam trains. I'll admit, it was pretty fascinating.

 

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 The boys enjoyed waving to people along the way.

 Owen is mad because we wouldn't open the candy cane until we were off the train. I've never seen him move so fast when the train stopped. He wanted OFF the train, then quickly asked for his candy cane.

 We stayed to watch the next departure. It was LOUD and we were engulfed by steam. Me and Lucas thought is was fun... Owen didn't cry, and afterwards said it was fun. Henry was NOT amused, and cried.