Trae's Trip to the Railroad

Little Trae loves choo-choo trains. We had been telling him when it stopped raining that we would take him to pop's work and he could see the big choo-choo trains. Well Saturday afternoon after it had time to warm up a bit, we took Trae to Union Pacific to see the big trains.

I am so glad we took him because he had the best time looking at all the trains. AND, he rode in the golf cart with pops and honked the horn and even stepped on the gas once. He was soooo excited.

This little man is very smart and knows a lot about trains. He surprised pops by asking if he could see a train on the turn table. I had no idea what a turn table for a train was, but Trae knew because he saw the turn table, but it didn't have a train on it. Wesley says he probably learned that from watching "Thomas the Train". What a smart little man.

He saw a special train painted for the 41st, President George Bush. The train's engine number was 4141. He even got to ring the bell on the engine. Of course George Bush didn't mean anything to him but some day he can look back at these pictures and say "wow, I had my picture made in front of a President's train."

After we left the railroad, we thought we would take him to the airport hoping to see some planes coming in to land or taking off. We saw a couple of them come in, but we weren't really close enough for him to get real excited, but he still had a great time seeing the two that we did see. Sorry to say we didn't get any pictures at the airport.

We knew he enjoyed himself because he konked out on the way home.

The last thing we did was stop at McDonald's for a Happy Meal, but he was already asleep so we took it home for a surprise when he woke up. Don't know what we'll do next time, but we'll make it as much fun as possible.