R. is four today and we are on a grand four adventure. For his birthday R. requested “rides” and “eat on a train”. Rides—straightforward. Eating on a train—not so much. I tried to explain to him that most trains you aren’t even allowed to eat on, but he was having none of it. Each time we asked him he was quite sure that “eating on a train” was going to happen on his birthday.
So we popped in the car and headed out for a Big Birthday Weekend. We spent Saturday at Hershey Park, going on rides until our stomachs turned (well at least mine did). It was a perfect end-of-summer day, warm and bittersweet with hints of winter at the corners.
Sunday, The Birthday, was to be spent with the trains. Somehow, magically, Thomas the Tank Engine was running on R.’s actual birthday. Normally nothing in this big wonderful world could induce me to go within 100 miles of a Thomas weekend but it seems that R. has pull. Before I knew what was happening the tickets were ours and Thomas was happening.
So we rode Thomas and we rode the regular steam train, SITTING IN THE DINING CAR EATING EXPENSIVE, BAD FOOD THAT NO ONE REALLY LIKED, and some kind of super cool, really old electric trolley car thingy, and a tiny push cart wagon-y train, and the pedal cars. Oh, and a school bus. They were using school buses as shuttles to and from the very off-site parking and the kids were just as excited about the bus as they were about the trains. In a nutshell we rode just about everything there was to ride. There was also kettle corn and soft pretzels and photos with Thomas and many, many trips to the porta potties. People, we threw ourselves into the spirit of Thomas with abandon. (Although I firmly drew the line at waiting in a long line to meet Sir Topham Hat. No. Just No.)
R. had a lovely weekend and apart from the numerous potty breaks required by the newly potty trained he was charming and appreciative. Happy Fourth Birthday R.! We love you!
He is just precious, and obviously relished his day. Can’t believe he is such a big boy now.
What cute pictures! Hard to believe that he is four!
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