Day out with Thomas!

As most of you know Sawyer LOVES Thomas the train!  For the longest time he couldn't even say Thomas and would call him Ty.  It's pretty cute. So when I had heard from several people that Thomas comes to Boone, IA every year I knew we had to go.  So I ordered our tickets and we waited for the big day to come!

Saturday, September 24th, 2011 finally came!  I think Dustin and I were more excited then Sawyer! :)  We packed up the car and headed to Boone.  Sawyer did great on the car ride.  We watched movies on our dvd player which is wonderful when traveling with a 2 year old!

We arrived a little after 11am in Boone and our train ride wasn't scheduled till 1pm so we decided to get some lunch.  We found a Pizza Ranch, YUM!!  Just from being at Pizza Ranch we could see Thomas was a big deal.  Lots of little kids with Thomas tattoos, and gear!  I was getting even more excited!  :)

After lunch we headed back to the other side of Boone to find the Scenic Valley Railroad.  We found our destination and headed towards the fun!

We had to get in line right away for our train ride.  We boarded the train and found a seat.  What a busy place!!  Sawyer was a champ.  He was looking out the window and people watching while we waited for the train to go.  He wasn't too sure of what was going on.

Finally the train started to move.  Sawyer just stared out the window.  He really wasn't too sure what to think.  Mom and Dad had fun though!

After the train ride we walked around and checked out all of the other activities.  They had so much to do!  Face painting, a hay maze, and more.  The line to get your picture taken with Thomas was very long so we decided to wait on that.

We found the gift shop tent and went in to see all of the Thomas items.  There were many!  We finally decided to just get Sawyer a Day out with Thomas t-shirt.  Sawyer wasn't too picky.

We then headed to wait in line to get our picture taken with Sir Topham Hatt.  The line was long but was moving pretty quick.  Sawyer waited patiently in his stroller and just people watched.  Finally it was our turn.  I walked up to Sir Topham Hat with Sawyer and Sawyer was just clinging to me.  He was pretty scared.  He wouldn't even look at Sir Topham Hat.  We got our picture taken even though Sawyer is barely looking at the camera.

After seeing Sir Topham Hatt we decided to get something to drink and go wait to have our picture taken with Thomas before going home.  Sawyer was getting tired and we knew it was getting close to nap time.  Thankfully we were 2nd in line for our picture with Thomas.  We just had to wait for him to come back from another train ride.  Thomas arrived and we went to stand in front of him for our picture.  Sawyer was again scared and clinging on to us.  We got our picture taken and then decided to head for our car.  It had been a fun day but Sawyer was tired and ready for a nap.

We got to our car and had barely buckled Sawyer into his car seat and he was almost asleep. It was a great day and Dustin and I decided that until Sawyer outgrows Thomas we will continue with this tradition.  It was a nice mini vacation for the 3 of us.  :)