Christmas Cruise

I get emails all the time posting the latest and greatest deals. I received one early in the month of December that sparked my interest. It was for a Christmas Cruise down the Provo river. It sounded so cool, and it was super cheap. They said, "thousands of lights and a visit from Santa Claus." How could you go wrong with that? I hadn't heard anything about it but I thought it would be no loss if it was dumb. So we purchased a bunch of tickets, enough for our family, Mom and Kenny, and Curtis and Whit. I waited all month long to go. I just knew this would be the new family tradition. Before hand we went to the Brick Oven down in Provo (which is always fabulous) to celebrate Whitney and Curtis' birthday (they are only a day apart from each other.) Then it was time to punch the address into the GPS...OH I was SO excited!  It kept taking us west all the way on the other side of the freeway. We were all so confused because the Provo river should be east, but we kept driving and driving and driving. We finally reached the destination out in the middle of nowhere, at the end of a neighborhood. Hmmm. This didn't seem right. It had been snowing all day, so we had to trudge through about a foot of mud to get checked in. I thought for sure we would hop on a shuttle that would take us deep into the canyon for our amazing boat ride. Nope! The "amazing Provo river" was technically a canal in someones backyard.

I don't think we were the only one's fooled by the awesome promo going on. Their were a ton of people and it was SOOOO cold. So we waited and waited and waited. At least they had a fire for us, and hot chocolate (well it wasn't exactly hot so we waited and waited for that too.)

Finally after waiting about 40 minutes it was our turn. The kids had to put on life jackets, you know how rapid that Provo river can get? We didn't want anyone falling out.

Doesn't Kade kind of look like Chris Farley...Fat man in a little coat

We had to trudge through more mud to get to the "river" bank. Then we all hopped on the boat. I just kept thinking their would be more. More lights, bigger river, something exciting??? It didn't happen. The guide pulled us down the "river" nice and slow, so we could take in all the lights. This is the most we got...

We went down a little and then turned around and came back. Lo and behold on our way back, Santa was rowing by in a canoe. He stopped by our boat to offer some treats. All the kids got to give him "five." Kade looked at us and said, "Mom that is fake, he's not weal. He doesn't even have glasses on!" I'm not quite sure why they couldn't fool a 4 year old? He was so authentic looking. Afterwards Kaylee said, "He was not real! His hands weren't even old and crumbly."   Well we decided the best part of the whole thing was the hot chocolate we had to buy, and the Fruities we stole out of Santa's bag. We asked Brayden what the best part was and he replied: "Was their a best part?" Nuff said.

Guess I need to keep working on the new tradition thing. I'm failing pretty miserably at it though.

Polar Express= lame. Christmas Cruise= worthless.