A Day With Thomas!

This past weekend my parents and I took Nate to see one of his favorite characters-Thomas the train! The main point of excitement for the kids was being able to see Thomas the train in real life form and get to take a ride. We drove about an hour and a half to get to the railroad where the event was taking place. I ended up being so glad that we got there fairly early in the morning to do all of the other fun Thomas related activities before we did the actual Thomas ride around noon. It was such a busy and popular event, parking would have been hard to come by later in the afternoon (plus it was warm and you were almost shoulder to shoulder with people!) Nate is also a little shy around large crowds of kids-he'll usually stand back and watch them all rather than participate, so it was nice in the morning that we fairly had toys and activity areas to ourselves.

We started out playing with stamps, coloring, playing with train sets...and Nate's second favorite part of all, getting Thomas tattoos! Ultimately he loved seeing the actual Thomas train riding into the station and just wanted to sit and stare at it as it sat waiting for people to board/get off. There was an inside area where Thomas movies played and storytime took place every few minutes (I'm so proud of my little boy-he was the only one who sat still in his seat throughout the whole story!) He was so proud to show off his tattoos to any kids who would look his way.

The actual train ride itself wasn't too exciting-not great scenery or anything and the train just moved backwards a few minutes and then forward to where we started. We did however get the closest seats to the Thomas train and our seats happened to be in a comfy lounge area, so we didn't do bad! After the ride we visited the gift shop-oh so dangerous. Nate was a great boy inside there. It was so hard to decide what to get for him, there were so many fun things. Anything from Thomas umbrellas, lunchboxes, cards, bath toys, sunglasses, plates....you could get whatever you wanted in Thomas! I bought a couple things and my parents bought him a handful too. Nate didn't see the majority of what we got so he may find them later in his Easter baskets ;)

I was surprised he didn't pass out coming home from all the excitement. I was happy he seemed to have a good time and was still excited about Thomas this morning-playing with the balloon he got, wanting to watch Thomas videos...really glad we got him tickets to go for his birthday.

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We were busy with this event while Josh was hiking in the Grand Canyon with friends from work. He had a good time overall, but not surprisingly came home tired and with sore legs and feet. He took a lot of great canyon pictures and even got to see some deer,a fox, squirrels and heard bats. I think it was an experience he might be interested in repeating-sometime :)