Train Show

Last weekend left me searching for something fun and different for our family to do to beat the winter blues. I felt like we'd been doing the same old, same old for quite awhile (swimming, stomping outside in the snow, going to the library), so I was looking for something to for a change of pace. When to my surprise, a train show in town! Well, actually in Middlebury, IN, which is a good 50 minute drive. So not exactly in town. But, I was desperate. I managed to talk Gabe into making the drive to Middle-of-nowhere, IN, which actually was about an hour 15 on the way there since we got lost. What we do for our children. Middlebury, by the way, is in the middle of Amish country, so we saw lots of horses and buggies on the road, which Henry called sheep. But he liked watching them! And he was the perfect traveling companion both ways.

We found the train show, which included two train models, one made out of LEGOS, and lots of old men selling and swapping their toy train parts. Wow. It was quite the collection of train paraphernalia, and quite the collection of folk. Lots of little kids, of course. We learned that if Henry keeps liking trains, when he gets older and gets a real toy train set, there is a lot to learn about having the right parts and tracks and such. For now, we'll stick with some Thomas trains in a little while.

The Lego train was really cool, and all the kids gathered round.

Henry is recently obsessed with a cardboard train box that is named Dinah, as in "Dinah blow your horn", and he L-O-V-E-S his Ninah, Ninah. We have a book about Dinah, who is a speedy bullet train, which he has tried to take to bed with him. Luckily, there was a Lego Dinah! Oh, this boy's face just lit up at the toy Ninah going around the track. In fact the whole way home, he couldn't stop talking about Ninah, Ninah. I'll post some pictures of him playing with Ninah, Ninah soon.
A daddy sharing his love for Legos, and a son sharing his love of trains. A match made in heaven for these boys.

Just to give you an idea of the locals.....:)

CHOO-CHOO! What excitement on that little face!

My sweet baby and some trains. Glad we could find some trains for you!