The Hale Family: The Polar Express and Bearizona

The Polar Express and Bearizona

December 17, 2010

We went on the Polar Express!!!! It was a blast! We drove up to Williams Arizona and checked in at the Polar Express Hotel. There was magic in the air!!!!

We brought new jammies and robes for the kids to open and wear on the train.

Santa is REAL!!!

The next morning there was a light layer of snow and the kids thought that was the greatest thing ever!!

Tina found this great place online called Bearizona. We decided to check it out. It was really fun and we loved seeing the animals right outside the car!!!

The feeding truck had just thrown out some yummy treats for the animals, so we got some great footage of animals eating and hanging around the road. National Geographic would be proud of our documentary...

This video is so funny. I don't know what we would have done if it had been us. The people who work there told us that their bears are smart. They can even open car doors, so we had to keep them locked. They have been known to climb up on the hood of a car because it is warm.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: What a fun trip!That is one fat bear. Glad to see that he just eats carrots though. :) We can't wait to see you guys!; May 18, 2011 at 2:49 PM

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I grew up in Mesa AZ and Joe in Farmington UT. I knew Joseph's uncle and grandma in Mesa and between the two of them they were bound and determined to set me up with Joseph who was "also a singer and would be perfect for me". The only problem was that he lived in Utah. Soon after, I left for BYU and ended up meeting him at callbacks for The Young Ambassadors. That next year we ended up as dance partners in Young Ambassadors. We became best friends, but dated other people until we finally got it together and started dating each other. We were engaged in Singapore on tour, and married 3 months later. We left for rehearsals 3 weeks later and worked on Holland America Cruise Line as guest entertainers for a year. We traveled to Hawaii, Mexico and Alaska. We went back to BYU for our final year of school and graduated with degrees in Music Dance Theater. Princess Cruise Line hired us as guest entertainers and we traveled for 6 months with them to the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. We then decided to move to New York where we lived for a year and performed in 2 tours. One day Joe woke up and told me he was going to be a dentist, so we changed gears. We have two amazing children, Brynnley and Jaden, who keep us as crazy as everyone else on this journey of parenthood. Wouldn't change a thing! Here we are finished with dental school and on to "real" life in Arizona. We have had an amazing journey in these 12 years, and it's only going to get better!!