The Train to Christmas Town is coming!

Overview:

“Train to Christmas Town” is coming to Santa Cruzfor the Holiday Season! Based on the just-published holiday book “The Train to Christmas Town” that tells the heartwarming tale of a young girl's journey to trust in the magic of Christmas through the support of family, friends and a host of characters, birds, a squirrel, elves and, of course, Santa Claus. The tale is about a little girl who looks forward to riding the Train to Christmas Town every year with her brother and Grandmother, but this year is a little different, as readers of the story already know. Accompanied by a bag full of surprises, woodland friends and jolly elves, Janice relives happy memories as she rides the train to Christmas Town once again.

See the story come to life as families ride the same train with Janice and her friends. The conductor will welcome you aboard and punch your ticket as you find your seat in the decorated train cars. Meet Bumblebee the Polar Bear, Wabash the Squirrel, even Zephyr the depot cat and laugh along with Elves while they’re busy serving cookies and cocoa, and leading guests in singing Christmas carols. Upon arrival at Christmas Town, Santa climbs on board and walks through the cars greeting each child with holiday cheerand his signature “Ho, Ho, Ho”

So, if your kids are anything like mine - they will LOVE this opportunity to ride on an actual train!! My kids really don't have any idea about Santa just yet, but I know my Jax loves him some trains! One of the best toys we have are his train sets. He can play with those all day long. Riding the steam trains in Tilden park is one of his favorites as is seeing the amtrak trains coming in at Jack London. Another favorite is to yell - ALL ABOARD!!

So get your tickets here or call 1-888-978-5562 to climb aboard!

Choice of miniature golf, laser tag, or 12 arcade tokens is included with Train to Christmas Town ticket price.

About the trains:

The Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay Railway is a subsidiary of Iowa Pacific Holdings, and operates freight and passenger train services on the Santa Cruz branch rail line extending from Watsonville to Davenport. Iowa Pacific operates holiday excursion and special event trains around the world and operates the passenger train in Machu Picchu, Peru (!).




Disclosure: I will be receiving free tickets for sharing this information with you. No other forms of compensation was received. As always, the thoughts and opinions are solely my own. But Jax really does LOVES trains! I'm excited to get to do this for him. I'll write up a review once we get our tickets and go. I'll let you know how the kiddos like it!

Ok, so technically this isn't a review (yet) since I just received this opportunity to get a free 6 month subscription to Speekee Spanish for Children and haven't tested it out yet (but I will in future posts). Now, if you've been keeping up with us (and thank you so much if you have!) you'll know that we are raising our kids bilingual in Spanish & English. So when this opportunity popped up - I just had to take it. But I didn't want to just tell you about something that I wasn't aware of (this was the first time I had heard of the program) nor did I want to just copy and paste their ad copy (which is below, with a few of my additions).

Overview:

Speekee Spanish for Children is the world's number one Spanish program for young children. Speekee TV Spanish for Kids was designed so that children can learn Spanish in their own time and at their own pace. Easy Spanish learning through video, without effort with the multi award-winning Speekee videos PLUS real-time 'virtual' friendships with the Speekee characters. Available only via the web, Speekee TV Spanish for Kids is loved by children and their parents around the world. I've read that it is also very popular amongst homeschoolers. From this opportunity, Speekee is giving my readers a one free month subscription of Speekee TV - Spanish For Kids Program - through this exclusive link. You can cancel anytime.

Speekee is designed for young children ages 2-10. The cost is $7.50/month, or $60/year.Speekee TV includes 10 episodes which are centered around a central theme like: "El Parque" (The Park), "El Cafe" (The Cafe) and "La Casa" (The House) just to name a few.




Reviews:

I have found a few reviews of the program by other mom bloggers and they are all pretty positive. You can check these reviews here: 1, 2, 3, 4 - these are recent reviews by the way and yes, while these reviewers did receive the product for free, they are still giving their honest opinion.

I can't wait to try it out. Although, to be honest, we try to refrain from TV or internet watching  at our house as much as we can, because we've found that Jax can get a little uppity and tends to need a lot more redirection than if he doesn't watch any TV. But we do give in, on occasion, which is why we know he gets real uppity. Who knows maybe I'll become fluent in Spanish?! HA! I'll let Charlie be the real judge of this program and give you both our take on it.

Disclosure:  I will receive a free subscription  for sharing this information with you. No other compensation was received. All thoughts and opinions are my own. For more information on reviews, or paid advertisements visit my disclosure policy .