Just last night as I was cruising through headlines, etc., I saw a blurb about a train expo happening right over in San Jose this weekend only! Well, of course, we had to check in with our resident train fan to see if he wanted to check it out and, of course, he said yes! So, today, we packed up snacks and headed over the hill.
The train expo was relatively small, but there were enough layouts on display to keep both kids pretty engaged and enthusiastic. Cameron had actually awakened at 6:30am (ugh) and she woke everyone else up, too, so the kids were fairly tired (especially poor Dylan), but they really managed to keep up a good energy level (especially Cameron!) at the train expo….
We saw N-gauges and Z-gauges and O-gauges and who knows what else. And, Dylan even got a chance to control one of the toy trains on display.
Once we’d exhausted the possibilities inside, we headed out for a games day at Sarah and Anthony’s, but the kids wanted us to shell $3/kid for this cheesy motorized train ride outside! Tom did his best to dissuade Dylan by telling him it wasn’t a “real train” because it didn’t travel on rails and that it would be like putting a train “shell” around our own car and driving it around, but Dylan still wanted to ride.
You had to be at least 36″ to ride alone, otherwise, you had to ride with a “responsible person.” Tom and I briefly pondered whether Dylan was “responsible” enough to manage Cameron…in the meantime, Dylan was angling Cameron over to the height bar to see if she could ride alone (“nope, too short,” he said)
Cameron was clueless on the various conversations about her height that were taking place.
Finally, Tom and I decided the car doors closed and locked so it was probably ok to let her ride with just Dylan, so we loaded them up into the tender and watched them smile!
Short but sweet ride! Anyway, shortly after disembarking, we headed to Sarah and Anthony’s for an afternoon of gaming and playing. Cameron didn’t nap (again), but she and Dylan played really well together nonetheless! She was really upbeat until her final diaper change at about 7 where she complained about her outfit until she sacked out over my shoulder! Today seemed like a good way to end a lovely, long, family weekend….Family weekend, we’ll miss you! It’s definitely weekends like this that make going back to work feel like a real grind!
