Illinois Railway Museum

On Saturday Simon, Alan, Emily, Auntie Colleen and Auntie Amy all packed up and went to the Illinois Railway Museum. It is about an hour and twenty minute drive to the museum and we packed up books and snacks and took off around 9 o'clock. We got there and immediately hopped on a train and went for a quick train ride. Simon was very interested in everything we passed and in the train whistles. It was unfortunately a pretty cold day so we all were shivering and hungry when we got off the train. We found a little cafeteria and had a quick but warm lunch. While we were eating a man walked by and Simon looked at us with a big grin and said 'Santa!'. The man did look like Santa, picture obviously below. We walked through some train barns and played in their play ground before heading back to Chicago. We had hoped that Simon would sleep on the ride home, but they were doing construction alongside the road for more than half the trip. Simon was so excited about the trucks that he never slept.

When/If we go back, we will do a couple things differently. Definitely we will choose a warmer day and we will bring lots of our own snacks as well as a picnic lunch. This was a fun adventure though and we saw tons of Trains. Simon said choo-choo and whoo-whoo many many times that day.

The Aunties and Simon in a train car.

 

Santa!