All Aboard the Train. Choo Choo!! Chugga Chugga.

ALLLLL ABOARD THE TRAIN!!! CHOOO CHOOO Chugga Chugga CHOO CHOO!!

My nephew sits there on my lap singing this as we are riding down through the railway lines upon Tod one of the steam trains at Glenbrook Vintage Railway in the Friends of Thomas the Tank Engine show they had on this weekend just gone.

I dont know how was more excited me or the kids...Ever since I started Uni and catching the train in, I have grown a new love for trains....watching them all at work in Westfeild...its rather spiffy and i get all excited If i get to see the steam train that is locked up inside a shed near the city....

It was only the other week when i was coming off the motorway on my way home from work that I saw a big cloud of smoke and a train slowly moving under the bridge I had just driven over...I knew then i had to go straight home and check out what there was to do when I go down to Kapiti - and fortunately there is a steam railway down there!

Their train was brought up for this show...

My nephew Michael was so excited about the whole thing, the moment we got off the train in Glenbrook he was decked out in a Thomas outfit and as we got off in come Thomas - THOMAS!!! he cried out, and it was none stop wheres my thomas...theres my thom thom i want to go on thom thom...of course when we actaully did go on thom thom is was a different story of Im Unwell...leave me alone Im sick...lol...and my niece just as much enjoyed it too...there were a few heated arguments which with a STOP FIGHTING from me they settled down...

My niece Meggan has her own Thomas set at home she got when she was a baby - when my sister was pregnant with her 6 yrs ago her heart beat would match and race agianst any trains coming in to Papakura when she was in having scans done through out her whole pregnancy...her first trip on a train was when she was just under a month old..we went into the city and had lunch at Burger King with her dad...

And Im sure my nephew "Charlie" (given that the scans arent wrong lol) enjoyed the family outting we had too....though "Charlie" couldnt SEE it all "Charlie" would more than lightly to have heard it all...

I love my fire engines to death though...but there is just something about steam trains......I dont know what...much like my thing for planes....perhaps its just my tomboy streak still in me from when I was growing up?? Lol


I cannot wait to make scrapbook pages from the photos i took - there were some awesome ones...Now I wonder where I can source the Thomas themed scrapbooking things from.... I know they are done by Sandylion...