Thomas Day Out

We took our little family to the Railroad Museum in Calera (not far from where we live) to participate in Thomas Day Out this past Sunday. Tres was so excited! He and Hank even took a little field trip over on the previous Friday night to see if they could catch a glimpse of Thomas! Anyway, we had a really good time. It was hot and crowded, but they had plenty of fun things for the kids to do! They had a huge sand box set up under a tent. They had a fake tatoo tent. They had some musicians. They had food and souvenirs. It was a really nice set-up! We took our train ride and then headed over to check out the souvenirs. The boys played while we looked around. Tres had told us he wanted a balloon. So Hank went and bought the last one that was shaped like Thomas. As soon as he took it over to Tres, he tied it to his wrist. Tres somehow got it off and let it go, so it went up to the top of the tent. Tres was so disappointed! And Hank was upset cause the thing cost $6 (can you believe that?). Anyway, the tent manager, went and got one of the smaller round balloons, and put some tape on it, and gave it a long tail. He sent it up and after about 20 minutes of fishing around the top of the tent, he pulled it back! Everyone clapped. What a relief, let me tell you! I was so happy that we didn't have to listen to Tres go on and on about loosing his balloon. When we got home, Tres took his balloon into Bryant's room and got it wrapped up around his ceiling fan. So we once again had to rescue it. But what was funny was when we gave it back to him that final time, he ran into his room, grabbed a lunchbox off of his dresser and tied the string to it! Can you believe that! Now, he has it sitting in his window and makes me tell him the story of the balloon every night!