Once again, we decided to brave the madness and go see Thomas the Tank Engine at Strasburg Railroad.
The kids will earn free passes to ride the train later this summer through the library's reading program, so we did the same as we did last year and just watched Thomas come in and out of the station instead of buy a ticket to ride.
There was plenty of fun things to do at the station. Ride the Cagney Train and Cranky Cars, ($1 per person for each without a train ticket) take pictures with Thomas, eat a packed lunch (or buy fair food) and sit in the spacious eating tents complete with musical entertainment, and of course the big tent of merchandise.
Afterwards we got 2 single dips of handmade ice cream to share at Strasburg's Creamery. YUM!
It was great having Pete along for the day. (One blessing of not finding summer employment yet.)
We don't do things like this often, (ie: focus on commercial characters), but watching our kids enjoy themselves and being creative to stay within our budget ($26 total, ice cream included--not bad!), we had a GREAT time making memories.
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