Christmas preparations: the holiday train

There are a number of things only few people have seen....

• On nine occasions have people claimed to have seen a very large creature in the Scottish lake of Loch Ness.
  
• A slightly larger number of people report having seen the Yeti in Tibet.
• Apart from pictures, few people make it deep enough into the ocean to see the large teeth and glowing fins of Chauliodus Macouni, the Pacific Viperfish.

We find ourselves in such exclusive company as we got to witness parts of the enormous logistical machinery that allows St Nicholas to single handedly deliver gifts to millions and millions of children in the course of a single night!  

We took the boys to see the Holiday Train as it passed through our town! It is true,  Santa's preferred carrier for pre-christmas transportation and warehousing is the Canadian Pacific Railroad.  It is known to whistle through the midwest on winter nights with glowing lights and lovely Christmas tunes blaring.  It even made a stop but it was way too cold to take the boys out of the car for any kind of photo opportunities.  (sounds like the explanations for why nobody has a high-resolution picture of the snowman, doesn't it?!) But we were there, we saw it and, by-golly, Santa Claus IS coming to town!