I Speak "Boy": Train Town

On Our Way to Train Town!

Yesterday we got a bit of a late start, but headed out to Sonoma to Train Town. If there wasn't a race going on it would have taken us about 20 minutes to get there, but of course there race going on (or something of the sort) at the race track so it took us about 40 minutes to get there. I will say, that living so close to napa/sonoma is one of the upsides of living where we do (I'm trying to look at the positives these days, as we are officially the last of our friends and family to live outside Benicia :( ).
Anyway, we got there and Elijah was SO excited! We just missed the first train ride, but that wasn't a big deal. We walked around a bit to check out the area, rode a couple of "grocery store" train rides and then attempted once again to ride the approximately 20 minute train ride. Elijah saw the train coming in to the station and was pumping is arm up and down yelling CHOO CHOO! CHOO CHOO! He seemed so excited. Then came time for us to get on the train, and kicking and screaming we got in to the train car, which didn't last more than one minute as Elijah desperately tried to escape. We knew this just wasn't going to happen! Our boy is timid. We know this, we just didn't think that riding a train would scare him. Everything is in his time though and we figured we would try it again in a couple months. I am not sure what scared him about the ride, or if it was a combination of tiredness and fear of the unknown. So onward, he said he wanted to go on this spinny ride which I knew wouldn't happen, but Aaron took him up there any way, and about 1 minute after these pictures were taken, they proceeded to exit the ride - ride untaken.
We finally succeeded with riding the carousel. See the pictures below. So the day was not a total bust. :)