A much anticipated day arrived. Thomas the Train came to St. Louis !!!! Charlie and William were so excited !!! We left before the sun came up in order to make the mandated hour prior to boarding time. Will is a sleeper so the early morning was hard for him but there was something special about leaving before the sun came up.
It's a good thing we left early - we kind of got lost in East St. Louis Illinios. In a mini van at that !!
We finally found it and I think we were the first ones to arrive. We were so early that most of the fun games were not even set up yet. I guess when we purchased the tickets we wanted to beat the crowd and that is exactly what we did !!! It was really cold !!
Will was so excited that he cried because he wanted to ride Thomas NOW
Finally the time arrived but we had another melt down because he wanted to climb into the train himself but the other kids started the trampel him so I had to hurry him along
You can't tell from the jacket on, but he has a very cute train conductor bibbs on. The binkie helped with his mood
Auntie Lee and Charlie
Charlie shared Percy the train and they did a lot of crash playing
I thought this picture below was cool, you can see the arch through the fogged up window. Again, a negative for going so early.
The ride lasted a 20/25 minutes up the track and then back. Afterwards we got to go to the front of the train to get a good look at Thomas.
By the time we got through the line, Will was so upset because he wanted to get back onto the train and ride it again. He did NOT want his picture taken.
Thank God for the little train that distracted him. I think both of them enjoyed this just as much as the Thomas ride
Notice that Will is pretending the chain is Percy's track.
At this point Will melted down, AGAIN, because he didn't wanted to get off the little train.
At the gift shop we got "Billy" and a train track for his trains.
It was a tough morning but when it was all said and done William woke up from his 3 hour nap telling me all about his morning. "Ride Thomas"... "Ride Train Tracks" ... "Choo Choo" .... "I love you mommy" and the rest of the day we played on the floor, setting up the track, loading "Billy" up with batteries and letting his trains travel around the circles. This boy sure does loves his trains.
Soon we will take another train ride but next time it will be later in the day so we don't disturb Sir William's beauty sleep.
