Today we went on a train ride with some of our friends. It was one of the boys birthday and being the boys they are they all love trains. This was a Steam Engine Train in Grapevine. It was built is 1896. It was a great ride taking us from Grapevine into Fort Worth Stockyards. It was about an hour and half ride and it was great. I, myself, have never been on a train ride so this was as exciting for me as it was the kids. Once we arrived in the Stockyards we all headed down to Risky's BBQ and had some great food. From there the kids found a maze they wanted to go through so we got them set up with that and they all enjoyed that very much. It was a little difficult and Ashlyn came out crying because she thought she was lost. She got over that real soon. We only had time to shop in a couple of stores before the train came back to pick us up. Once on the train again, we had almost a whole cart to ourselves since we were the "birthday party". It was great, but the boys discovered how to open the windows. We didn't feel real comfortable about that because there were no screens on them for safety measures. And you know boys, they wanted to stick their heads and hands out as much as possible. We shut the windows and they, of course, found something else to entertain themselves. I actually looking forward to going back for the Polar Express. How exciting is that!!!
