Model Trains
It's Saturday, so of course Quinn got up at the crack of dawn calling for me specifically. Wouldn't have been that bad had I not been up till three the night before catching up on TV and DVDs. So I was basically the living dead for the hour and a half until Ginger got up and let me go catch some shuteye.
We got invited over to Vienna today to hang some with Ken, Karen and Amanda. There was this special little house along the bike trail that is used for model trains that was open today (apparently it's only open a couple of times a year). Quinn was absolutely fascinated with the whole thing, you could tell he was excited as he would yell from across the room every time a train came out or went into a tunnel. There was obviously a ton of time and effort spent on this train setup. The mini memorial for a car that had once come uncoupled and rolled off the track eight years ago was at least mildly amusing.
In addition to the model train place being open, the caboose was also open to the public today. The caboose was a lot like the caboose down in Clifton that the kids liked so much. After going back and forth between the model trains and the caboose a couple of times, we all went to dinner at (wait for it...) Red Robin. After dinner Ginger and Karen went to some stamping thing and I took the kids home and put them to bed (after we played for a while anyway). Oh yea, and during dinner, Quinn got to try something new. Fried clams. Ginger ordered them for dinner and I offered one to Quinn. When he asked what it was I dodged the question and told him it tasted a bit like popcorn chicken. I was going to tear one in half, but he ate the whole thing, then asked Ginger for some more. So that's another one in the win column, and that wasn't even a struggle.
We got invited over to Vienna today to hang some with Ken, Karen and Amanda. There was this special little house along the bike trail that is used for model trains that was open today (apparently it's only open a couple of times a year). Quinn was absolutely fascinated with the whole thing, you could tell he was excited as he would yell from across the room every time a train came out or went into a tunnel. There was obviously a ton of time and effort spent on this train setup. The mini memorial for a car that had once come uncoupled and rolled off the track eight years ago was at least mildly amusing.
In addition to the model train place being open, the caboose was also open to the public today. The caboose was a lot like the caboose down in Clifton that the kids liked so much. After going back and forth between the model trains and the caboose a couple of times, we all went to dinner at (wait for it...) Red Robin. After dinner Ginger and Karen went to some stamping thing and I took the kids home and put them to bed (after we played for a while anyway). Oh yea, and during dinner, Quinn got to try something new. Fried clams. Ginger ordered them for dinner and I offered one to Quinn. When he asked what it was I dodged the question and told him it tasted a bit like popcorn chicken. I was going to tear one in half, but he ate the whole thing, then asked Ginger for some more. So that's another one in the win column, and that wasn't even a struggle.
4 comments:
beautiful girl.
Our dentist office has a train outside his office, and the office is made to look like a depot. My kids love going there.
James, the last two shots are really wonderful.
You should order the Rajun Cajun, if just to mess with the heads of the servers. It's a fried chicken sandwich with the patty smothered in Buzz sauce. They offered it as a special a couple of years ago but will still make it for you if you ask.
That doesn't change the fact that they are on my shitlist though.
That "special little house" as you so quaintly put it actually used to be the Vienna train station on the WO&D line until the line was shut down in the mid 60s.
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