Day Out With Thomas The Engine

On June 27Th. we took T. to "A Day Out With Thomas the Engine". This was very exciting for our T. and he was already to go when we arrived at his house before eight in the morning - had to be there before his Mom & Dad had to go to work.

Getting to the location of the event was a little special in itself. the event took place at the Heritage railway station a way out on the far northwest corner of the city. The parking was a long ways from the station so there was a special bus provided as part of the package to shuttle everyone to the station. I'm not quite sure if this was a first bus ride for T.

On arrival at the station we had T.'s picture taken with Thomas the Engine but I have yet to figure out how to scan it into the computer. We had about an hour to look around at all of the things to do before our train ride.

The "Big Boy's" train was the first display we saw - "NO TOUCHING" was the rule at this place. I think Opa was more interested than T.

Then we came to the various size toy trains of the Thomas series. The littlest one was T.'s favorite. He was fascinated to play with it for quite a long time. All the children were playing alone side by side with one another and not fighting over any of the parts.

Then came the 45 minute train ride on the heritage coach behind Thomas the engine. ( Thomas the engine is mostly a mascot) Prairie Dog Central locomotive provided the pulling /pushing power. So we went backwards one way and frontwards on the return trip.

Also part of the activities provided were inflatables for the youngsters to play in. The train one had such a strong wind at the entry way that we couldn't convince T. to enter it and it was too small for adults to go in it. T. really enjoyed the Tiger and was able to get up in it and jump to his heart's content.

































































It was almost as much fun bouncing in and out on the tongue of the Tiger as jumpin inside of its belly.

Around about 11:30 we had to find some hot dogs for our lunch because Oma was so hungry.