Thomas and his friends!

TWINS!

MC LK on the mic

The main reason for visiting the Blue Mountains was the Day Out With Thomas. The boys loved it! Col was a little scared at first as Thomas is a real steam engine. And Thomas is loud and proud! I had never seen one running up close and the power and the sound it makes as it gets going is impressive. We also got the chance to wear coal EVERYWHERE as it blew in the windows as we puffed along. A few things came to mind:

1. Imagine your only transportation was horse and buggy, and along comes this beast. Now I can understand how you read about people coming from all around to see the train in the old days. It must have been mind blowing! The power and size of it was overwhelming for me.
2. Imagine having to travel that way rocking back and forth click clacking along and covered in soot.
3. What “old timey” things will our grandkids and great grands seek out and spend tons of money to do? Ride in a car? Surf the web? I can not even think of what it will be? 

SIR TOPHAM HAT!!! Despite the pic, Colin LOVES Sir Topham Hat or as they call him here The Fat Controller. Seriously.

James oh James! Is it really you?

This was a big boy ride and a little terrifying for me to let him do it! As luck would have it, battery on good camera went out and all of these pics were on my phone!

We were barely out of the parking lot. 

Of course, the story is not so cut and dry for our weekend a few funny things happened. 

I went into Coles for one item and came out with 8 boxes of mega pack Pampers think 800 diapers, they were $20 off per box and they are PAMPERS, PAMPERS PAMPERS Glorious PAMPERS!!! The back of our car was PACKED!

Carson was acting up getting his diaper changed and I was telling him what to do/not to do and he covered his ears.

We stopped at the liquor store and in the cold section Carson asked the worker "where waffles?" 

The boys missed their nap so they were in no shape for dinner out on Saturday so we got takeaway from a terrible Thai place and planned to eat it in the park in Katoomba. While I was paying carson kept running in screaming.."Hi, MY here!! My here, My here." The other patrons looked devastated that we had opted for takeaway!  

At the park, as I was putting out the food I could hear a strange noise like a cat meowing but, it was a busy park filled with the typical park cacophony, crying, playing, toys squeaking so I did not think anything of it until a petite Calico kitty came LEAPING out of the bushes and bounded onto ONTO our table. She was very friendly, still we had to shoo her away but Colin was in love. 

Then gnats descended on us in droves.

Then a scary dog started stalking us, literally stalking us and our horrible food, we(as well as all the other people with sense) hightailed it out of there! 

Mike told Carson we were going out to breakfast and he could have whatever he wanted...toast OR waffles OR pancakes. Colin started to whine that he was hungry, Car told him.."going to breaffast, you can have toast AND waffles AND pancakes! 

When we unpacked out bag, we have the a/c remote from the hotel. OOPS!