I love coupons. Coupons, Groupons, WagJags, Dealfinds, love them. I probably buy more of the deals than is strictly necessary, but as a colleague of mine says, "They went to all that work to mark down the price, so it would just be rude NOT to buy it!"
I recently bought a WagJag for a family pass to the Halton Radial Railway Museum. Neither hubby or I had ever heard of the place, but M is in love with trains. It stems from his love of Thomas of course, but he's pretty open minded. He can still be very impressed by your average commuter train or freight train, so riding on a train of any sort is a huge deal.
We set off in the hopes of arriving just after the museum opened, but through a comedy of errors, it took us probably more than half an hour longer to arrive than it should have. Firstly, I was under the mistaken impression that it was located at Kelso Conservation Area, and headed in that direction. Thankfully, in the car, I had hubby double check the location. Well, he didn't enter the right city with the address, so while he turned us correctly westward, he also sent us back south. Wrong. AND in the meantime, we were waylaid by the Ride To Conquer Cancer using the side roads in their noble cause.
Ain't no road trip like a backwards family road trip! N fell asleep on the ride, which was actually a good thing. It gave him a bit more patience for the rest of the day.
When we finally arrived at our destination, M was really excited to see all of the trains parked everywhere. When we exchanged our WagJag for the ticket, he got his hand stamped, which is pretty much in his Top Ten Favourite Things To Do Ever. Just ask my librarian auntie! Then we headed out to the platform, where an antique streetcar took us for about a 7 minute ride out into the woods. There, we stopped at a little station where an out-of-use streetcar doubled as an ice cream parlour. Yum!
After a bit of exploring, we caught another train back to the main station. There they had a huge shed with restored trains and streetcars and subways that you could climb into and explore, and a few buttons to push that made lights flash or whistles blow. M loved it. He posed in front of every train without needing to be prompted, and smiled for the camera whether it was ready or not! I particularly enjoy this one because of the "do not climb" sign he is blatantly ignoring:
In comparison, the rest of the day was pretty low key! The boys and hubby all had naps when we came home, and I wrote yesterday's blog and pretty much bawled my eyes out. We had a quiet family dinner, and then played outside until it was time for the boys to go to bed. I read them extra stories and gave them extra long cuddles, and then I cried some more.
I think hubby wants to have me institutionalized.
Trains AND ice cream?? Sounds like a pretty perfect Saturday! And hubbies always kind of want to have their wives institutionalized, they're just confused by the magical complexity of the lady species.
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