a day out with thomas (aka mini-disney world on a cranberry bog... with trains)

today we went to edaville railroad for their "day out with thomas." edaville is a little train-themed amusement park (i vaguely remember going there as a wee one) set on the cranberry bogs that are so plentiful around here. the main attraction is a train ride around the bogs. a few times a year, thomas the tank engine comes to town and pulls the train. they also have all kinds of thomas-based activities (meet sir topham hatt, etc.) pretty much, it's heaven for the pre-school set. so even though it was a bit overcast today with rain showers expected, we just had to check it out. -

quentin rode on the astronaut ride with daddy. we were there pretty early so we got to do the rides without any waiting.

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quentin demonstrates how NOT to get out of the astronaut ride

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quentin and daddy also rode the tilt-a-whirl. Q was scared when they spun fast but seemed to love it anyway. oh and the bar is just being held down by jeremy. who needs to lock fast spinning rides?

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quentin's first solo ride on the flying turtles. this ride has a height maximum.

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and another solo ride on the train. he was totally going to be in the engine but some stupid mom was too busy texting to notice her sons cutting in front of Q and stealing the engine from him. not bitter.

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hey! where do we board?

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thomas pulling an earlier train. what a useful engine!

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Q checking out the view from the train, making sure that thomas was not being cheeky

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quentin's first carousel ride. he was unimpressed until it started moving.

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and caroline was amused (as always)

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definitely a hit. we will be back. it is really nice that they have rides for the really little set (though i did see one little boy crying because he was too tall to ride the turtles!) it is also really close to our house and opens early enough in the morning that we can do some quality amusing before nap time sets in.