Stone Mountain Christmas

We took the boys to see Santa Claus at Stone Mountain Sunday night. Every weekend until Christmas they have their Christmas village (aka the North Pole) lit up with several events throughout for families to enjoy. All of the buildings, trees and bushes are covered in lights. They have miniature golf, a 5 mile train ride around the mountain, several children's shows including a 20 minute 4-D version of the Polar Express (which Rylan loved, Austin did not), a character parade, laser light show and of course ending the evening visiting Santa Claus.

Since it had rained Saturday and most of the day Sunday, and it was very foggy some things were cancelled when we there. Like the skyride up the mountain that Nate and I were looking forward to taking the boys and my mom on. But almost everything else was still running. Overall we had a great time and now know what expect next year.

I did not get a lot of pictures since Austin is very independent and thought running through puddles was more fun than anything else. Here are a few pictures we did manage to get.





The biggest mistletoe that we had ever seen.


Rylan was more than ready for the train ride to start!



Some pictures of Stone Mountain from the train ride. For those of you that haven't been there before, that is stone not snow (not sure if you could tell from these pictures...it's time for a new camera).


Santa in the character parade.


Visiting Santa. As you can see both boys didn't really care to be visiting Santa. This was Austin's first time to sit on his lap, so he acted as expected showing us his classic pout face. Rylan was shy as usual and wouldn't even look at Santa let alone tell him what he wanted. This is what memories are made of!