Trains

This past Friday, Sophie and I went with my Dad up to Spencer, NC to visit the NC Transportation Museum to check out Disney's Train Tour of their new movie A Christmas Carol out in theaters Nov. 6th. Spencer, NC was stop number 34 on a 40 city tour. It was pretty neat to walk through the train and see all the special effects and work that went into making this movie. I actually really want to see the movie now, too bad I will have a newborn or will be very, very hugely pregnant and probably not able to sit through an entire movie! Aside from getting soaking wet because the sky opened up and dumped rain just as we got in line to walk through the train, it was a fun day! I did manage to snap a few pictures, nothing like the fabulous pictures that my wildly talented photog husband takes, but hey one can dream. Thanks Dad for a fun little day trip.

Apple Pickin'

This past Saturday, October 3rd we went to an apple orchard in SC with Jackson and Shane. It was a little different than last year which was a little disappointing especially for me since I was looking forward to sampling and taking home some of the tasty treats that they offered last year like dried apple rings and fresh apple donuts just to name a few of my favorites. They had done away with a lot at the orchard including tours due to some licensing that they had not obtained, so this year they were just sticking to apples. Oh well the kids had fun picking apples and chasing around the chickens.

Rainy Day Trip To Discovery Place

With all the lovely weather we were having last week I felt so bad for poor Sophie (and myself, honestly) being cooped up in the house. She was so good all week, so Thursday we headed out to Discovery Place for a little change of pace and to get the heck out of the house! I had my expectations set pretty low, I had been to Discovery Place before and knew that it was mainly geared for school age children, but it had been a while since my last visit so I thought, what they heck, we're getting out of the house. Low and behold Sophie had a blast and therefore, so did I! They had this great little room that was specifically for children 6 and under, of course we spent most of our time in there on the slide and at the water table! We got there at 11am and didn't leave until a little after 2pm, we did stop off for lunch too so that took a little of that time, but she played hardcore and passed out fast in the car!