On Wednesday, the big kids went to King's Island for the day and Griffin and I had a day all to ourselves. Griffin got to pick where we went.
No, he didn't pick the Lego store. He picked his other true love...trains.
We went to Forest Park in Noblesville and visited the Indiana Transportation Museum. He was my little tour guide...telling me what kind of trains we were seeing, what they were used for, how they worked.
Sadly, most of the trains there were just sitting there rusting. There were so many of them!
We took a picture of this schedule sign and are going to try to reproduce it for his bedroom. so many projects...so little time!
We also packed a picnic lunch and stopped at Holy Cow Cupcakes on the way to the park for our dessert. Griffin got the chocolate cookies and cream stuffed cuppie and i got the old school vanilla with sprinkles. mmmmmm
they have putt putt there at the park and we had the whole course to ourselves the whole time! {evidently we were the only crazy people who were interested in putt putting in 96 degrees...huh, go figure}. I kept trying to get a picture of the ball rolling by on the turf, but the sweat kept dripping into my eyes and this was the shot i got every time.
Because we are not golf pros, we agreed we wouldn't keep score and would look the other way if one of us needed to have a "do-over". We got lollies from the concession stand...
Then we decided we had enough of the heat and went home to our air conditioner and to snuggle up on the couch and watch reruns of Drake and Josh {we love them!}. But before we left the park, we picked a rock off the ground at the 18th hole and decided it would be our souvenir from our day. I used a paint pen to commemorate our adventure and i will keep it on my dresser. It was one of those days that i think we will both remember forever. ♥
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UPDATE!
My super sweet friend Jennifer McGuire, who asked me to illustrate that Erma Bombeck quote that i blogged about this week is giving one of the prints away on her blog! Simply head over there and leave a comment and you'll be entered to win! I'm blown away by the kind things her readers are saying about my work in those comments (over 200 last time i checked!). wow!
Sounds like a wonderful day, I love your sweet recollections :-)
I also love the idea of re-creating the train sign for Griffin's room--can't wait to see what you do!
Posted by: Jen B | August 01, 2011 at 11:09 PM