This was our 2nd non-annual trip to Duluth to meet up with the Gehrke family. Last time we did, Quinn was a newborn and Hazel wasn't. Plus, we had made the trip from Oklahoma. This time we were a little closer.
These first two pictures are from Bentleyville, which is kind of a village of Christmas lights. It's actually pretty awesome and well worth the trip. Not convinced? They had free s'mores ingredients and fires set up at the halfway point of our loop, which is what Kristen and Tate were doing above. Bentleyville: 2 marshmallow-y thumbs up.
They also had a lot of people dressed up in Christmas-y mascot costumes. Santa's reindeer, penguins, you name it. Very fun.
And Duluth has a Christmas Train. Was it
exactly like the Polar Express? In a word: no. It was more like a couple self-propelled old passenger cars that took us about a mile to a magical land called: The North Pole. Scratch that; it was the train museum.
But at the train museume, they gathered all the kids and did a theatrical-type reading of the Polar Express, which the kids loved.
There was a point where they needed to figure out an answer to a tricky question about how to get enough Christmas spirit, and our resident Jr. Elf, Tate, though normally shy in a group of strangers, shot his hand up in the air with a solution. So he got to come up to the front and be a sort of Christmas spirit cheerleader. That role was perfectly cast for Tate, and he was pretty proud of his success.
(More Duluth to come...)
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