Family Back Together
Last night Jusitn came to visit me and slept with me. It was kind of cute until he started tickling my feet. Justin and Nicole played this morning while Isabelle and Danny were in school. I decided it was easier to give my kiddos a bath at Kristi’s rather than the hotel. Nicole loved playing with the dolls in the tub and Justin liked all the floaty things. After bath we packed up since we were heading back to San Jose. We grabbed some lunch on the run and headed to the train museum in Sacremento. Justin and Nicole loved it. Justin looked at the trains and said this is a huge train. His eyes were open wide looking at all the trains. They liked walking through the trains. All the kiddos loved the model train area. This was the highlight, the kids loved watching the trains go by. They pressed buttons to make the trains go and loved watching them. The kiddos played by the train tables for a while. Justin made a big train but Nicole kept on getting in his way. Then Kristi dropped us off at the train station. I was a bit stressed for some reason, got our tickets and got right on the train. Nicole was pretty cranky as she was starving but I didn’t want to stop to get her a snack until I was on the train. I got the kiddos a bag of cookies. While I was putting our luggage up and collapsing the stroller, Justin opened the cookies. So the kiddos were really happy. Justin was so excited to be on the big train. I got som great pics of him.
They were just looking out the windows, we saw bridges, tunnels, cows, ships, etc. The excitement of the train wore off after a couple hours, the kiddos were getting bored. I brought out their sticker books and paper and pen. The kids loved drawing with the pen. We took walks around the train but the kids didn’t hold on very well and it was shaky so mostly we were sitting and playing in our seats. We made it and Bret was right there to help me off the train. The kids were so happy to see daddy-it was cute. Bret was carrying both kiddos and the kiddos were wild. We had a quick dinner then headed to the hotel. We got back around 7:40ish and there was no way the kiddos were going to bed, they were hyper. They were playing and being so silly. We were laughing. Finally we let them run around the hotel and do some laps. Nicole finally went to bed at 9:00. I missed Bret a ton and we had a great time but it would have been better if Bret was with us.