Lots of updates . . .

I can't believe it's been three weeks since I blogged last!  Here are some of the latest going-ons:


LOTS of baseball!  GO DANIEL!

Sophia as The Mouse in her Preschool Play, "Good Night Gorilla"
Her lines were:  "I'm the Gorilla's nice little friend.  I keep track of the Gorilla's snack."  And keep track she did . . . and was rewarded with the banana at the end of the play.  Hey, the Gorilla was asleep!

Irresistible sugary churro faces : ) 

Visit to the Golden Spike National Historic Site
(kids plus replica of golden spike that you can't actually see)

ON the actual track--wahoo!

Just can't get enough of the danger . . . 

This is the last tie laid on the railroad . . . of course, it's been replaced due to weathering and time and such, but did you notice this?  There aren't any spikes holding it to the rail!  Cool, huh?  They re-enact the Driving of the Last Spike every May 10th--this year it will be the 141st year!  Did you know they had a Driving of the Last Spike ceremony with the golden spike in 1869, then replaced it and had another Driving of the Last Spike ceremony with a regular steel spike.

The original replica of the last spike (senza kids).  It was, in Livia's words, "smaller than I thought!" and is engraved with the names of the Presidency and Directors of the Pacific Railroad at the time.



Riding the Front Runner (and Trax too--wahoo!) to Daddy's work for lunch over Spring Break
There it is!

They got to sit wherever they wanted on the train . . . note the consistent independence of child #3

I love the absolute joy in the ride!

It was very cool to see the Golden Spike one day, then the Front Runner tracks the next--we compared and contrasted the types of rails, how they were held together, and which was more effective for what kinds of trains . . . it was an unplanned celebration of the evolution of travel!

Comments

Janet Johnson said…
Good for you! I always meant to go there. I think I did once, but maybe someday with the kids.

And Daniel looks like an old pro at baseball! Awesome.

Doesn't a churro sound just YUMMY? My stomach's growling.