The tower

We made a break for it Sunday after church.

We're always complaining that we don't have anything to do (well, one of us is anyway =) ) so we just packed up the kids, fed them in the car and drove to Rail Fest! Yes, Rail Fest. That sounds so Midwestern, doesn't it? Well, fortunately, we live in the Midwest and Noah LOVES trains.

Rail Fest is a festival of trains. Duh Eva. A brochure we picked up says Rail Fest is Home of Bailey Yard, the largest railroad classification yard in the world. It further says that Bailey Yard:

• covers 2850 acres
• has enough room to enclose 2800 football fields
• where 3000 cars are sorted each day
• has 18 receiving and 16 departure tracks

It's a pretty big deal for trains buffs, but Noah's not quite there yet. They just built The Golden Spike which is a tower that overlooks the whole yard. It's 8 floors or 95 feet high with a 360 degree view. It was okay. Yeah, just okay. Paid $12 for Terry and I to be there w/the kids for like 45 minutes. So just okay. Noah had fun coloring on a computer screen - yes, he was supposed to do that. There were four different blank pictures you could select from and then pick a color to fill in all the various parts of the train, or dude, or whatever.

Here Noah is coloring.

About to spring up the binoculars.

Awww. He looks so cute.

Here is Noah and I in front of the tower. I had to hold his head towards the camera b/c he wouldn't. Silly boy.