Keegan LOVES trains, and Philip and I had been wanting to take him on the commuter train that goes back and forth from Nashville. However, we never could find a good time to do so. So we were really excited when we found out about the Polar Express. You catch the train downtown at the Train Museum and ride out to Lebanon and back. During the train ride, Santa comes to talk with all of the riders. We talked about this train ride for weeks. Keegan was SO excited!! We arrived at the museum kind of early (we didn't want to miss the ride). The train wasn't ready to take off so we went inside of the museum where a model train was set up. Keegan was very intrigued. I think that he could have gone then and been a happy little man. However, we convinced him that we should ride the train. We gave him his ticket, and went to stand in line to board the train.
Once on the train, Keegan was eager to get going. He was running from side to side and looking out all of the windows. After about thirty long minutes of waiting, the train finally took off. I don't really think that he totally understood what was happening at first, but he slowly became adjusted and was ready for the ride. He did really well for about the first fifteen minutes of our ninety minute ride. He had seen and ridden a train. Philip later said that he thought that he would sit there for the entire time and just watch out the windows.
Well he didn't... It didn't take long for Santa to come along so that was good. He willingly went to stand and have his picture made with Santa. When Santa asked what he wanted for Christmas, Keegan said chicken. Wow!! I wasn't expecting that.
After Santa, we spent some time walking through the different cars. We thought that it would be a good idea to walk down to the food car. We weren't really hungry, but just wanted to check it out. Well...what we didn't realize was that the food car was about six or seven cars from the one that we were on. That doesn't seem like a challenge but with a two year old who had been "trapped" in a small space for a while and an eight month pregnant mom this proved to be quite the experience. The cars we walked through were quite a bit smaller and full of people. I thought that we would never make it back. Here is us going through...
We really had an amazing time. It was a chance to make memories that we will never forget, and Keegan can now say that he has actually ridden on a train. Here is one finally picture of all of us after the amazing train ride...
