All aboard!

We needed an outing on Saturday morning because Corey planned to work all day at the office.  I asked the kids if they wanted to go see a steam engine and they tried to climb in the Big Red Van before I could even get them dressed.  We sped up the road to Nashville's Centennial Park to see this big guy:

Both kids had to wear their engineer hats that Grandpa Spike got them.

Peter kept offering the train little handfuls of rocks and saying "here go, choo choo!"  He also said "all 'BOARD!" about 400 times.

This thing is seriously massive.  It was part of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway.

"Here go, choo choo!"

There's also a plane from the Tennessee Air Guard on display.  Peter also loves to say "PAIN!!" (translation: "plane") a lot, so this was a big treat for him to see.  Charlotte wanted to know why it was on a big stick.

Alas, the plane didn't hold their attention so it was back to the engine.

My little choo choo ragamuffins.

There was a bunch of birds with a nest somewhere on top of the engine or something, because we heard lots of loud squawks every time we got near the train.  Somebody wasn't happy that we were encroaching on her territory.

Whoah.  That's one big choo choo.

After our visit to the park, we brought lunch to Corey at work.  We ate in the lunch room, which the kids thought was the coolest thing ever.

No trip to Daddy's office would be complete without playtime with Daddy's little cars.

Peter wasn't happy until we had inspected each and every car.

We had to wake Peter up after he napped for nearly three and a half hours.  It really wears a guy out to visit a choo choo AND Daddy's office all in one morning.