Yep, that's right...a life sized Thomas the Train. We headed to North Conway a few weekends ago to take a ride on Thomas the Train. Now for those of you who don't know, Brody is a big Thomas the Train fan. He just loves automobiles in general, but slap a face on them and give them all names and he's sold! He knows the Thomas theme song, he knows all the trains names, he even knows which trains run on coal and which run on diesel - I'm totally not kidding. And, for some reason beyond my comprehension, he even likes watching the Thomas the Train show. Anyone who has seen it knows that it is the most boring, poorly animated show of all time. I use the term animated quite loosely since there is no animation. It's simply a video of a train moving on a track...and sometimes the trains eyes move. They talk, but their mouths don't move...it's just bad. I simply don't get it, but he is happy as a clam while playing with his trains and borderline giddy when he gets to watch the show so we thought...what could be better than bringing our little man to take a ride on Thomas?
Despite this being the coolest thing that Brody has probably done in his entire life...I mean what boy who LOVES trains wouldn't want to take a ride on a "real" Thomas the Train?...Brody spent a good portion of the day looking like this (see photo below). Yep, we were trapped with a crabby Brody in the confines of a train car! Ugg! Sometimes we just can't win. We were feeling quite frustrated that he was being such a little crab, but then we looked around and realized that the majority of kids there were throwing some sort of fit and no one under the age of 5 seemed to be listening to their parents. Compared to the other kids, Brody was actually doing pretty well so we just shrugged it off and blamed it on some whacky lunar phase that must be affecting the children!
He turned his attitude around pretty well when he saw all the train tables and the bounce houses and he LOVED running under the mister tents to cool off.
And of course the day ended with some face painting and the best lemonade I have ever had in my entire life. I'm not kidding. The only bad thing about it was that Brody decided it was the best thing he had ever tasted and I had to share it with him! We grabbed lunch and a fun little sandwich shop on Main Street before we headed home and thankfully, after a day of train whistles and screaming children, Brody fell asleep as soon as the car started moving and we had a glorious, peaceful ride home!
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