A Christmas Carol in October

To promote the upcoming movie, A Christmas Carol (with Jim Carey), a train came to town last week and offered tours over the weekend. Thomas is very into seeing trains right now, so I thought he would enjoy it. Trey had Air Force obligations so Aunt Beth joined the boys and me to check it out.


Thomas was excited about the train until he realized it wasn't going to move and he quickly tired of all the movie promotion and memorabilia on board. But we finally made our way through it and he did enjoy this little interactive touch screen exhibit that allowed you to explore Scrooge's home and work and other movie scenes (it's all computerized) in London.


We happened to be right behind a family we knew the whole time, so after we toured the train, Thomas had a ball running around the large field with the other little boy.


And every once in a while soapy bubbles would fly into the sky (supposedly "snow") and the kids liked trying to catch that.


Parker instead enjoyed his snack and watched from the sidelines.

(Parker wasn't feeling all that great that day...so we left not long after and took him home for a much-needed nap!)

Not sure if I'd do it again, but it was a different way to spend a Saturday morning!