Many cities in America had FREE entrance to their museums on Saturday. Our little (88K) town has 4 museums and all were free on Saturday. We've been to the Fort several times. We just went to the Nature Center in the last couple of weeks. I would love to go to the Fine Arts Museum but really I think I'd be too slow for the younger group to enjoy. Mike is REALLY slow at a museum ::snort::.... In fact this adorable character trait led to some reminiscing about a visit to an air museum in Pensacola with our family and the R family. We've NEVER been to the train museum....off we went...those who were home and available....
We were given a tour guide who had worked at our Historic Santa Fe depot (98 years old) for 40 years. He was passionate and knowledgeable. (He also had peppermints that he handed out to everyone but we noted Stacia and Arielle got HANDFULS!)
Huge to scale model that the kids can climb in
Lots of train set ups - this one is a living room sized set up - made me wonder....
Date Nails were pounded into ties and then they could tell which year the ties had been placed...
All enjoyed these but Zander was mesmerized...
What's wrong with this photo
Hmmm...A Christmas Idea? Maybe.... Well it would be a family Christmas/Birthday toy as I'm quite sure it is over their $50 per child Christmas budget. LOL 
They had several real train cars for us to climb around on
An "almost" family photo ::grin:: Jared took it and the older 3 are off and about....
4 comments:
What a great day! I'm glad you are still enjoying your family time, even when some of the family isn't with you right now.
My guys love, love, love the Thomas train sets we have...it has taken us quite a few years to collect them, but it has been a good investment for us.
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Wow! What a fun looking day. Next time you are all here..... lets see if the train still runs up into the hills in this area..... or ride to Portland/Seattle or whatever.
I had the same thought about Christmas. Oh Well!
l/p
FUN! My boys love trains.
That looks like a great museum and a fun day out.
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