Trains

On June 16th we went to Ogden with my mom and sister in laws and their kids. We were supposed to go to a big train thing for the Christmas Carol movie coming out later this year. This train is traveling around the whole country and will be in NY for the big premier in November. This is what was in the email we got. Fun for the whole family, right?

So we got there around 11am, made it to the end of the ridiculously long line where we were told it was a 2 1/2 hour wait just to make it to the train! Then the worked guy tells us it takes an hour to get through the whole train, and then he looks down at the stroller with the boys in it and says "and this might be a deal breaker, but no strollers are allowed on the train, so you will have to carry your kids". Bah. I think we waited in line, the hot hot line with no shade, for about 30 minutes. Then we decided it probably wasn't worth the wait and instead we went to the train museum, car museum, and gun museum (only because they were all included in the price and they were right there).

The museum was ok...the kids seemed to like it. They really enjoyed watched all the model trains chug around.

Here's Nana and all the kids posed on a caboose.

And here we are in the train station, the line of people in the background are waiting for the disney train. I think they still had over an hour wait at that point. So glad we had given up on that.

Kaitlyn did NOT want to climb up on this train. It freaked her out, I think the look on her face explains that.

On the way back to the car I talked to a couple different people. We made the right decision. They said it was boring for their kids, it was too long, more for adults, and the some said the movie preview (the 3d sneak peek) scared their kids.

So off we went back to Bountiful for a picnic at the park!