I LOVE Trains!

As promised, we took Alex to the train show today. We had lots of fun. This was on the way in to the convention. The whole car ride we asked him if he wanted to go see trains. His answer was, of course, his sweet little "okay". We figure next year he'll be old enough to reason with and this will be worth a solid week of extra-good behavior.


There was a kids play area with electric Thomas trains and little track sets. Fun, but it didn't last for long. The fact that he didn't have to propel them meant he lost interest pretty quickly. So, he grabbed us by the fingers and we were off to the next thing...


A good old fashioned wooden set! One of the vendors had two tables set up with trains for the kids to play with. Alex really seemed to like that they were at his height and played for a long time. Did a decent job with the whole sharing thing too.
Add to Stan's to-do list: Build Alex a wooden train table.


Then we found a large model set up low to the ground. I think it was H scale, each car was about 12" long. They had 60 coal cars on 3 engines going around it one way, and another with an engine, baggage car and two passenger cars that went the opposite direction on an inner track - it went much faster. They were very neat and once Alex figured out that they weren't for touching, only looking, we did really well.


We watched for a while in one spot and then Alex would grab me by the finger and drag me a little further around to see it from a different view.


We had so much fun! We bought a new engine for Alex, it's a BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe). They are one of the lines that frequents the rails around here. We thought it would be a neat momento.
And Alex must have had a great time because he was asleep before we even hit the on-ramp! Life is good when you're 2!