Blue Thomas

So ever since Christmas Zachary has really been into trains. And for a kid his age that means Thomas. However, Zachary does not watch the videos and neither do we so to Zachary all of Thomas’s train friends are just different colored Thomas. So he was really excited to go see Blue Thomas at Greenfield Village. The day started off really cold so we had like fifteen layers on because we knew it was supposed to warm up just not when.
I was surprised at how much stuff they had for the kids to do. I thought it would basically be ride the train and take pictures but they had a ton of free activities for the kids. They had rocking trains that the kids could ride, tattoo and coloring/stamping stations, story and video times, bubbles, toss games, old fashion toys for them to ride/play with. Plus they had converted a huge building into the biggest Thomas store I had ever seen. They had everything and then some.
We had signed up for one of the earlier rides so we got to the Village as soon as it opened. That ended up being a good thing because Zach got to do a lot of stuff without having to fight for space or toys. Which he is not good at because he is so shy.
Zachary was really excited to see the Blue Thomas and loved when it blew his whistle. In fact, as we were lining up to get on the train and take out ride around the village he kept yelling,” Blue Thomas and All Aboard!!” with huge wide eyes and excitement. The people in front of us laughed he was so excited and happy. However, as the station master took our tickets and Zach realized that he was actually getting on the train he freaked out and started to cry. He did not want to ride on Thomas, just look at him. He cried and buried his head as he rode in my lap almost the whole train ride. However, near the end he did pick his head up and start to enjoy the ride but he would not turn around and face the front. I think next year will go smoother.
Zachary loved looking at all of the big trains and Matt was happy that to see the Calumet train was out and he got to watch it get put away. Zachary also loved to watch the glass blowing. But we weren’t really sure if that was because of all of the colors and fires or because it was really warm in the building and we had been out in the cold for a while.
All in all it was a good day and we look forward to doing it again next year.