6 Miles

My grandfather sent the boys a gift card for Christmas…I remember when I was a kid, the joy of taking the money they'd send us and getting to pick out whatever I wanted. So I decided to let them pick out what they wanted. I suggested we go to a local train store and they could pick out what they wanted.  (I was wanting them to get something that would last & they LOVE the trains…I had thought of going myself and getting things for them but the train store has hours that make it tricky to get to without the kids with me.)

Alex picked out a signal house that tells the trains to stop/go:

Will picked out a crossing station–see how it has signals to stop the cars?

and then they switch to stop the train?

They played nicely with them all day, and had great fun sharing both. We also got a T-switch track and a few other switches that came from a bin so they were much cheaper then if we got them in a box in a regular store. The store was busy filling orders for Christmas and they had no problem with the boys playing with the display models as long as we didn't mind being ignored. So there was a nice morning out! Then we came home and played with our own!  Thank you Grandpa Harbin, they're having lots of fun with them. Tomorrow we'll be working on the thank you notes, but I wanted you to be able to see some pictures.