Train Display

Another busy night of Holiday Fun! We meet Emmy, Dave and Annie at Emmy's house this evening. We drove to "the big city" to see the Duke Energy Train Display. The train display is in its 60th year. The lobby of the building has at least 10 train tracks with a little city complete with a skiing hill, a pond for skating and all the trains that you can imagine.
One of the trains even has a small camera mounted in the light and it shows on a big screen. Mark took us last weekend. Emmy and her friends had heard so much about how fun it was...they decided they had to go...but only if Michael went also. Dave now knows more about trains than he ever thought he could know. We walked to Fountain Square to see the ice skating rink. We had planned on skating but the ice was melting and they were closed. Michael said that he didn't want to skate because he didn't know how. So instead we went to Red Robin for dinner.
An end note...Annie made Michael a train from candy. He thought it was great. On the way home he started eating the gum. He has never had gum so with Cassie's prodding, I had to explain to him that you chew the gum and then spit it out when the sweet is gone. He thought that was a good idea. About 5 minutes later I asked him to hand me the rest of the gum so we could save it until the next day. He said, "Momma, I only have one piece left." When we got home I asked him to give the gum that he put in the trash...well seems that the gum is in his tummy...but he promised that he won't do that any more.