Here is one for us Arizonans. My family just made our reservations for this years Polar Express. The Grand Canyon Railway has it every year. My girls, co-worker and I all went last year and had a BLAST. We (along with a few hundred other people) got dresseed up in our favorite pj's and boarded a train at the GC railway station and it was bound for the North Pole. On our trip there we were served cookies and hot coco by Santas helpers while the story "The Polar Express" was read to us. We arrived at a North Pole setting where the train turned around and headed back to the station....somewhere along the way "Santa" boarded the train and passes out bells to all of the children aboard! The whole trip lasts a bit over an hour but is real neat! We now have a new family tradition.

Here in MA they started doing this about a year or 2 ago. I never heard of it until recently.
I am glad that you posted because I wanted to make sure if it was worth the $ and it seems as though it is. It's $20 a person to ride the train.

It is great and the kids LOVE it! Ours is I think $22.00 for adult and like $12.00 for kids but it is worth every penny!

We have a Polar Express Trip in Indiana too. Not sure if we are going to go or not but here's the link for my fellow hoosiers!

http://www.itm.org/events/polar.htm

Great idea MJ, here is our link

http://www.thetrain.com/polarexpress.cfm