Day Out with Thomas

Hooray! Despite torrential rain in the Chicagoland area, our rescheduled Day Out with Thomas was not canceled due to flooding. We had a fantastic time at the Illinois Railway Museum today. Highlights:

• We got to ride a train pulled by Thomas! The Real Thomas!, which the girls mostly enjoyed.
• The girls got their first tattoos. (Surely not their last.)
• We got so much new Thomas merchandise that it looks like Sir Topham Hatt threw up in our living room.
• We saw countless old steam and electric engines and assorted bits of railway history. (Tons and tons of pictures that are not posted here are available online. If you want access to them and I haven't already invited you, shoot me an email.)

Every kid knows -- Thomas in number one.


Tickets to ride.


Sophie, Mom, and Uncle David wait for this train to get started.


Dad and Evie are enjoying the ride.


Taking it all in.


Either we're sad the ride is over, or we just realized that we blew straight past lunchtime. Hard to say which.


Some old bell.


Sophie ponders the meaning of it all.


Sophie and Uncle David are dwarfed by some of the big old steam engines.


Daddy and his squirmy girls.


Tickle monsters! Run for your life!


Kicking back in an old CTA station.


Uncle David got some new non-spherical Thomas balls for his favorite nieces.


Tats.