Thomas the Train

This past Saturday, we drove two hours to Connorsville, IN to see Thomas the Train. Adam's starting to really get into Thomas, and Alex is on his way out with Thomas. So we decided now would be the time to go. For those of you not familar with Thomas, he's a blue steam engine in a kids' tv series. We watch him mostly on PBS or Netflix, but also have many books about Thomas and his friends (more steam engines or machines).

So anyway, Thomas was going to be in Connorsville and we had tickets for a train ride! Alex was so excited, he kept waking up the night before asking, "Is it time to go ride Thomas?" When we finally got there, they had games, activities, rides, and story times in addition to the train ride, all which was included in the ticket price. Suprisingly, the boys really just wanted to go on the train ride and weren't really into too much of the other activities. Altough they did like the gift shop alot. They had all sorts of characters to go on the wooden train track set then I've ever seen in a store---even Toysrus! We had a hard time getting them out of that one. But we did finally make it to the train ride. Thomas was in front, but Andy and I noticed a real engine in the back of the train that was doing the real pulling and pushing. I guess Thomas was just for looks. :)

an old engine for picture taking

Adam always smiles good when I say "cheese",

but that day, he kept closing his eyes and squinting!

On the real train (really old train cars)!

Waiting at the "train station" for Thomas

here he comes!

I just threw this picture in. We had the gokart out and cleaned it up a bit today.

We'll need a friend to come help us get it started. It doesn't get much use, so it takes some fiddling to get it going at first. But once you get it going it wants to take off! So we always need two people to do it, especially with the boys around. But Alex still likes to "drive". :)