Lonestar Christmas

In addition to hosting the ICE! exhibit, the Gaylord Texas goes all out on the Christmas decorations. Once we were done with ICE! we walked around looking at all the decorations.

Right after we let out of ICE! we were in the gift shop, where they had a train full of stuffed animals. Jonathan LOVES him some trains, so he moved all these stuffed animals into the next car and climbed on in. Last year, it was actually something that they let the kids play in, so I didn’t stop him. I would have if he’d just climbed on top of the stuffed animals, but I didn’t think he was hurting anything by doing this, and one of the associates was right there next to us. We put all the animals back and he was not happy to leave the big Jonathan size train.

And then, we found this in the lobby of ICE!… he was in heaven! I’m not sure how we had missed it earlier! He didn’t want to leave. Not even when Mimi offered to buy him a cookie or ice cream.

We wrestled him out of the train and went to get ice cream and watch the glass elevators go up and down. Don’t you wish you were entertained just as easily?

Then we walked around to check out all the trains and other beautiful decorations.

 

This was the giant gingerbread house. And giant gingerbread man, woman & dog.

Trains….   this picture sums up how Jonathan felt about the trains. 

One of several of the large Christmas trees they have on display in the atrium.