The Christmas Train

 

Each year in downtown Minot, a Christmas Train comes through, all decorated with lights.  We thought that sounded pretty cool, so we got all bundled up and went to wait for the train to come.  It was freezing, 8 degrees, so the kids had very little patience.  See the shininess on my cheeks, yea, that's ice.  It was really cold.  Thankfully the town provided free hot chocolate, hot dr. pepper (that was a new one), and hot dogs.  It did little to warm us up, but we kept waiting!  These pics are not that great, my camera does not do well with night shots, but you get the idea...

 

We waited at the end of Main Street where the big Christmas tree is lit!

We had to go warm up in a store so we wouldn't freeze, but when we came out, the train was there!

There was a band playing some rockin' Christmas songs on the train and the lights on the train were really cool!

We toughed it out for a bit longer and headed home.  Here is a view of the downtown decorated for Christmas.  They have speakers that play Christmas music all the time down here.  Joe loves that, he says it feels like the movie "A Christmas Story."

As we left, we got a better view of the train!  Fun!