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Here is our group shot.. Kim and I thought it would be great fun to take all our kids on a train ride, fun free entertainment right? Well sort of. 2 grownup and 6 Kids all under 5, we mostly had it under control. When we got to the platform there was a good amount of people waiting to ride, we lined up and waited for the doors to open,(there were no signs or people to try and keep this crazy moment under control and no one said that the same doors you go in people come out, common sense maybe but I thought there would be an entrance and an exit).Well the doors opened and all the people getting off the train plowed through all of us waiting to get on the train we held to our young ones and pushed onto the train, we headed up stairs and found 2 seats back to back, close enough that we could feed our kids the lunch we'd brought and help each other wrestle the kids as needed. Kim sat by some old people, she tried to talk to them but they weren't in a talking mood. I got to sit my a vagabond he must have just came from Saint Ann's because he was showered and had clean clothes on, not what you would expect from someone who jumps from town to town on a train. He told me fun storey's of riding the rails. Kim thinks that he was telling a tall tale, but why would anyone make that up.

The kids all enjoyed looking out the windows and seeing the rivers, horses, cows,tractors, and cars. They played eye spy and were all having a great time until Hannah started talking about playing in the water and how much fun the lake was going to be, when we told her it was Salt Lake City not the Great Salt Lake her Wynnie and Bruce got really sad. Of course that made Kim and I feel like the worst parents in the whole world we thought our kids would have so much fun and they were in tears over the whole misunderstanding. We thought that the drop off sight was pretty close the the gateway so we told the kids we'd go watch and play in the jumping water. Everyone was happy till the train stopped, 8 blocks from the jumping water. Kim and I weighted out our option and figured we can walk the 8 blocks (mind you we only had 1 umbrella stroller and 4 kids who would need strollers for that distance luckily we had brought our snuggley's) as we arrived at the spot were they have the water we noticed it was roped off and they had people working on it. No jumping water for us. By this time we had been in the sun for way to long the babies were past the point of being tired. So much for being super Moms.

We got hot fudge sundae's at McDonald's to help make up for the disappointments of the day then headed back to the pick up spot. As you can see Bruce LOVED his sundae..i think all the kids equally enjoyed theirs. I am so glad that McDonald's can fix anything, a little chocolate and we are back to smiles and fun

Preston and Ester finally were able to fall asleep on the walk back to the train stop. We left Ogden at 12 and didn't not get home till almost 5. When we got back on to ride home it was rush hour so all the people who were trying out track with their work were waiting, luckily we were able to find seats most of the people had to stand. Because Preston was asleep in the stroller I couldn't fold it up like last time so we had to sit in the front of the train which unfortunately did not have a window. The ride home was boring and we were all tired and ready to be home. it was all worth it though because we made it on Fox 13 news at 9..It fells good to be famous :) Their were so ups and a couple downs all in all I 'd say I'm glad we went and made some fun memories...Next time we will have to go to the Salt Lake, maybe go sailing.