A Day Out With Thomas!

THOMAS!!!

Luke was as happy as Isaac, I'm not sure why he's making that face.

So excited to see a real Thomas the Train!

My monkey climbing the rockwall!

On the train ready to ride!

Luke was exhausted by this point and scared of the train whistle.

The Conductor punching our tickets.

And he couldn't fight it any more, the nice ride and daddy's arms holding him, he had to give in to the sleep.

Sir Topham Hatt!

Bye Thomas!

As I have mentioned a few times, our boys LOVE Thomas the Train! So today we took the boys to go spend a day with him, and we completely surprised them. We had to drive 3.5 hours to Burnet to see him, so the whole way they had no idea where we were going. We gave a few hints, but Isaac never in a million years could have guessed that we were going to see and take a ride on Thomas! The faces of both of the boys were undescribable when they caught their first glimpse of him. It was such a special moment to see them SO excited! Luke just pointed and yelled with a big smile! Isaac could not get the huge grin off of his face, he couldn't believe his eyes. We had about an hour to walk around and explore before our train ride, so we did just that. Luke enjoyed running free and seeing all of the Thomas paraphenelia around the place, he was constantly pointing at something and squealing with delight! Isaac attempted to climb a huge rockwall! He kept asking to do it, but we weren't sure if he was ready for that, we decided to let him try, and he did a great job! He had absolutely no fear!

Finally, it was time for our ride! Everything went so smoothly, we only waited a few minutes before boarding the train. Unfortunately, the train blew quite a whistle as it was coming in from the trip before ours, and Luke was terrified by it. He held on so tight to me until we were safely on the train. They played fun Thomas music on the train while we waited to leave. Then a worker explained to us that Thomas was training the diesel, Gator, so Gator would pull us out and then Thomas would bring us in. Isaac was very interested in that information, he had to know all about the Diesel train. Once the train was moving along Luke relaxed and fell asleep in Daddy's arms. Isaac went back and forth from our laps to Emmy and Gumby's...he loved every minute of the ride!

On the way home I asked Isaac what his favorite part was, he responded, "Seeing Sir Topham Hatt!" He then asked why James wasn't there, and why Thomas didn't take us to the Steam Works to see Kevin and Victor.

I'm so glad we took this day to go on this adventure and make these special memories with our boys. We are so thankful that Emmy and Gumby came along to enjoy the day with us!