Santa’s Polar Adventure

Saturday morning we drove about an hour outside of Denver to Georgetown – the Silver Queen of the Rockies. Georgetown is an old silver mining town with about 1200 residents and a quaint little historic district. First stop – Breakfast!

We ate at the Happy Cooker in the historic district. Great food. Great atmosphere. And Sarah, our server, was far too perky for that early on a Saturday morning. If you ever make it there, get the home fries – they are to die for!

After hitting a couple of the shops, we made our way to our real destination – the Georgetown Loop Railroad!. Tara had purchased tickets weeks ago for Santa’s Polar Adventure. Normally, the train stops running around Halloween but this year, they decided to have special holiday season trips themed around Cris Cringle himself. We boarded about 11AM and by 11:30 we had started chugging up the narrow gauge rails towards Silver Plume.

We were lucky. Conducter Dan (shown above) was on our train and was a font of historical information not only about the Georgetown-Silver Plume loop but train knowledge in general. This really made the father-in-law happy! Round trip, our journey only took about an hour but during that time we were treated to beautiful views, warm cookies and even Santa himself!

I tried something a little different with my camera during this trip – I turned my digital SLR camera into an expensive point-and-shoot by choosing all of the automatic settings that I could. Why? Well, this trip wasn’t about taking photos to be used for prints or stock photography. This was capturing family memories. With my camera in fully automatic mode, all I had to do was point it in the general direction and push the button. Easy Peasy. I like easy. Rest assured, the auto settings will be turned off – but maybe not until after are night-time trip to Denver.

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