Crown Center

We decided to head up to Crown Center and Union Station to have some fun.  We borrowed Papa Bo's suburban and loaded up the cousins.

 We started with lunch at Fritz's.

 Jayvan was not digging the hat.

 Then we went over to the Crayola Winterland that was set up.  The kids had some fun running around there for a bit, but then they decided to opt out of seeing the Santa who was there.

The kids stopped for a photo op with the Lego people.

 We walked (or ran in Lexi's case) over to Union Station

The line for the Holiday Express was pretty long, so we had plenty of time to photos.

 The kids spent the waiting time playing games on cell phones.

 The kids all got to see Santa and Mrs. Claus just before we got on the train.

 Then we walked through the Holiday Express.

 There were some gingerbread houses that were part of a competition.  We were impressed.

We had a great time.