Choo! Choo! Coming Through! Part 1.

The kids love trains. They always have. Thomas is one of their favorites although they aren't huge fans of the show.. PBS doesn't much draw them in as the Disney Channel. But last fall we drove up to Salisbury to ride Thomas and they loved it. Well Thomas came back and this time to the mountains (thank you for cool weather in the summer). This time Thomas was at the Tweetsie amusement park in Blowing Rock. And we really enjoyed ourselves. For everyone not from here, Tweetsie is a SMALL (more like fair rides) amusment park with a real train on which you can ride and they put on a Cowboy and Indian show. I am told that the show the do when Thomas is not there is a little more dramatic but for this event it was mostly Cowboys and Indians being silly and we loved it. The pictures will explain better. So we got there and walked around and got the lay of the land. And missed our train ride. Oh Well, we decided to have lunch and wait for the next train.

As you can see the kids passed the time by making silly faces. But not long after, here came Thomas!

As you can see the weather was awesome yes this was June (before it cooled down) and we were in long sleeves and pants. I actually packed our fleeces but we ended up not needing them.

Halfway through the train ride we stopped for a "show". The cowboy you see rode in our train car with us.

Once we disembarked, we took the requsite pictures with the engineers and Thomas.

Up next time the Rides!!!