we can't escape the s-man

there was a train, a train headed to the north pole.  they called it, the polar express...

except none of us has ever seen that movie so we told p that she was nancy and we could pretend we were taking frosty to the north pole so he wouldn't melt.

this is where hiz and i did our best 'no money, no ticket' lines.

the s-man.
it's hard to convince a 3 year old that the s-man is pretend when we keep bumping into him everywhere.
to date she tells me that he is pretend real.

frosty and his 'fridgerated' box car.
or at least that's what i told p. 

i believe the line here was: just pretend you want to hug mommy.

the line here was: stop knocking at the window and drawing the attention of the scary man wearing a scary grinch mask.  (he was really scary and not associated with the train ride.... at all)

oh, my, the moment is coming.

santa ticket conductor

talk about two birds with one stone.
train ride and telling santa what you want for Christmas.
no overpriced mall santa for us.
(hiz and i are at odds on the santa thing so p is stuck somewhere in the middle.  he has happy santa memories, i have no santa memories and i don't want to fib to p.  so far we're just at an impasse)

over all it was a good trip, but then i knew it would be because this beauty was hanging in our train car and i badly wanted to take it home with me.