The Boulder City Santa Train

Boulder City is a cute little town just outside of Henderson where the Hoover Dam is. They have a little train that does regular trips and for Christmas they have Santa come aboard and talk to all the kids. My friend Trisha hooked us up with some tickets and we were excited to go and see what Rook would do. His only other train rides have been Lagoon and the "This is the Place" park.

When the conductor walked by we snagged him for a picture. He put his hat on Rook and he felt so important. Don't ask me how many kids head were in that hat....


Rook, Jasper, Benjamin and Isaac. All waiting patiently for the train to start. I really don't know how photographers get kids to look at them at the same time and smile.

Here Rook is telling Santa that he wants chocolate, candy, lego cars, and race cars for Christmas.

Right by the station was a building set up with lots of model trains. The old school kind that have all the levers and metal track. I remember playing with trains like this when I was little. I have no idea what happened to it. We probably destroyed it. But Rook was mesmerized. This one gentleman was explaining how they work to Rook and he was very quiet and listening the whole time. He even let Rook push the levers to start the trains and dictate how fast they would go. Heaven.