Christmas at Silver Dollar City 2014

Silver Dollar City has been a family favorite for years now. For the past couple years we have been season pass holders and that means we are always just 2 hours away from one of the girls' favorite places.

The only thing that I love more than a trip to Silver Dollar City is a trip to Silver Dollar City at Christmas time. The whole park is covered in lights and it is beautiful. They also do a great job of celebrating the reason for Christmas, our Saviors birth.
On Thursday we surprised the girls in the morning with a note in our advent bag that said "Go to Silver Dollar City today" The screams were heard all over town. We also used a set of "bring a friend passes" and brought our good friends with us.  
Before we went in we had to stop at the gate for a few photos.

This tree is huge, beautiful and even more magical at night.

They stage the park with so many photo ops, it's a bloggers paradise.

So naturally we took some a ton of photos.

We saw a couple shows.

The kids were all thrilled to go up on stage and it even "snowed" when they sang.

We rode some rides.

And we saw "The Man", Santa, himself. Marissa is COMPLETELY positive that the REAL Santa Claus lives at Silver Dollar City. 

She has ALWAYS been very pro Santa.

Emily... not so much.

She suffers from a VERY severe case of P.T.S.D. every time she see's the guy

Post Traumatic Santa Disorder. 

Maybe next year. 

But at this rate she may never come around :).

After Santa it was time to eat some dinner.

Then we hopped on board a Christmas train ride. 

Now that is an "usie"!

By the time the train ride was over it was very dark and we were able to take in some of the beautiful lights, watch the parade and check out the tree's light show before heading home.

Another fun day at Silver Dollar City. So glad that we were able to go and that we had great friends to share our day with.

How was your weekend?