after our amazing five weeks in maine, our time in eastern pennsylvania was a bit of a letdown. it started with two, back to back, 4.5 hour travel days. it doesn’t seem like much, considering we used to make the 10-11 hour drive to ny from nc a few times a year. but, with packing […]
trains
new jersey day (trains and mines).
last saturday, we crossed the over the border (and the delaware river) and spent the day in new jersey. derek had picked out a few activities for us, so we could put our NJ sticker on our state map. our first stop was at a little model train museum. it definitely wasn’t nearly as impressive […]
thomasland, edaville, usa
during my preliminary research into things to do near this campground, the edaville usa railroad popped up. i added it as a favorite and moved on. later, as derek did his own research, he dug a little further and discovered that inside the park, there is a thomas land, with all thomas the train themed […]
tweetsie with buddies.
our pal graelyn is turning three soon. to celebrate, a set of her grandparents came to town and they all went to tweetsie for the day on saturday. oh. and we also got invited. it worked out nicely because derek has to work so much, and it gave him some time to work, without feeling […]
comin’ ’round the mountain…
derek’s parents have a time share in blowing rock nc. last week was their week. we are bored and tired of the same old same old. so on tuesday, we visited. i got us all packed up and when the two lid kids awakened from their beauty sleep, we hit the road. the trip up […]
Day 2 – Tweetsie…
Yesterday, we began calling around a bit, to find out hours, prices, etcetera, for some of our potential stops. Upon calling tweetsie, we learned that they were now only open on the weekend (since school starts tuesday – makes sense). Anyhow, thankful that we called, we loaded up our little train junkie and headed out. […]
day out with thomas…
a few weeks (months?) back, we went out to blowing rock to tweetsie railroad for the “day out with thomas”… thus began isaac’s obsession with thomas the train… here are some pics. if you click on any of them, the internetz will whisk you away to my picasa album, which contains many more thomas pics… […]