The Santa Special!

Today we went on the Epping Ongar Railway Santa Special and for the first time had a private carriage to ourselves!  because they were the only ones left when I booked.
We had several visits from the Ice Queen, a magician, Buddy the Elf, Mrs Claus, Mr Scrooge and of course Santa Claus himself and a good time was had by all. My photo contains the Flower Fairies with the man himself and being snapped by Aunty and S-R's daddy.
In the evening,because it was The Son's birthday, we went to Miller and Carter, spoiled only by poor little Stella-Rose succumbing to a tummy bug in a taxi en route to the restaurant and her daddy had to take her home.  Fortunately, as I'm posting this a day late, I know that she had recovered by Friday morning and should be back to her normal self by Christmas Day.
In Extras,I have produced something for Abstract Thursday: some of the carriage decorations given the motion blur treatment, double exposed and put in triplicate in Phototastic Collages.