Strasburg Railroad Company Train Ride

Last night we arrived in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania at Tom’s mom’s house. We will be here visiting his family until Monday afternoon. We left yesterday from Roanoke which was fabulous because it was three hours closer than Charlotte. Three hours make a huge difference when you are traveling with three small children.

Today we went to Strausburg to ride the open air, passenger train that is pulled by an old steam engine. The kids had never been on a train before and they loved it. The train ride took us about 20 minutes in one direction and then turned around and took us back. We rode through corn field after corn field of Amish farms. There were Amish families picking the corn, airing out their laundry on clothes lines, plowing their fields with a plow being pulled by an ox, and an Amish woman mowing her grass while the kids played on the swing set. It was surreal. It made me want to become Amish: less bills to pay, no TV, more family time, to bed at dark, no $4 gallon gasoline to worry about, etc. However, I am not a big fan of washing my clothes on a rock, cooking on a wood stove, or gardening. After considering this, I decided that being Amish may not be for me.

The kids loved the train ride. They could hang out the windows of the train and see things that they had never seen before. Faith sat in MaMaw’s lap the whole time and listened to her teach Faith about the things that she saw. It was very cute. Even Miller liked to hang out the window and take it all in. It was a fun, family day.

After the train ride we sat at a picnic table and had lunch. It is always fun to come here to do things that we don’t have in NC. Tomorrow we are going to a farm and Sunday we may go to City Island to play.

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Wilson and Tom

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MaMaw, Faith, Pa and Wilson

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MaMaw and Faith looking out the window


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