The Christmas Train!

So last night we drove to what seemed like the middle of nowhere to ride the Christmas Train in Dry Gulch. We didn't really know what to expect, but we were REALLY pleasantly surprised- It was incredible! They have made a complete old western town out there and it is all decorated really beautifully for Christmas. It was like visiting the North Pole-West. Haha! We weren't sure how to get there so we left a little early, but with my stellar navigation skills we made it easily and arrived an hour before it started! There is nothing, I mean NOTHING near there to do for an hour so we kept driving until we got to Grand Lake. We followed a rode out to nowhere and it ended up being a pretty neat little excursion.

The road to Nowhere

It ended up taking us out to the middle of the lake and then looping back around. I took some pretty pictures.

First you have to go in the depot and get your boarding pass. Here's me and Ezra with ours.

(He wanted to ride-NOT get his picture taken)

We waited a few minutes and looked around the depot.

The train was so neat! It was an old timey steam engine (like Scarloey, for the Thomas fans :)  )

 

We got our picture taken in front of it, but it came out kind of blurry :(

Here are Caleb and Ezra standing "in town"...

They really did a GREAT job! Look at these places!!!

The town church

 

 and...

 

We will DEFINITELY be doing this again next year!