Day Out with Thomas

After our experience of hunting Easter eggs in a blinding snowstorm, we knew we had to go back to Baldwin City to the Midland Railroad when Thomas was in town!  The forecast for Friday was for thunderstorms, but Thomas was going to happen, rain or shine.  Luckily for us, the rain was over by noon and we had sunny skies and cool weather for our afternoon at the railroad.

When we arrived, we followed signs to park at the high school so we could ride the free shuttle (school) bus to the tracks.  The whole ride, Ben kept saying, "A real live school bus!" like he just couldn't believe his luck.  At the train station area, several large tents were set up with different activities--a gift shop, food, a small petting zoo, story-telling, and train tables.  One guess where we spent 90% of our time!  Dan and Ben loved playing at the train tables, especially the ones with the plastic tracks and the motorized trains since we don't have too many of those at our house.

Our train ride was at 3:45 and the boys decided they wanted to ride outside, so that's what we did.  Every time we came to an intersection, the train whistle blew and it was pretty loud.  Grandma covered Hannah's ears and the boys spent most of the ride with their hands over their ears.  But they didn't seem to mind the noise too much!

After the ride, we could have stood in line to get our pictures taken with Thomas, but Dan and Ben are a lot like their dad and have zero patience for photographic documentation, especially if a line is involved.  Oh, well!  We played some miniature golf and bounced a little in the bouncy houses and then hopped back on the school bus to ride back to the car.  A fun Day Out with Thomas was had by all!

Grandpa was very proud of his tall block tower!