Our Family Blog: Aiden's birthday visit to the train museum

Lately Aiden has been very into trains. He loves watching trains on YouTube, playing trains and watching the trains go by in our neighborhood. He doesn't really like Thomas or any other cartoon trains, he likes the real stuff. We were thinking of things to do for his birthday and since he really doesn't have a lot of friends his age, we decided to take him to the train museum in Golden instead of having a party. On Saturdays, the museum does "ride the rails Saturdays" where they have train rides around the museum. Today they had a steam ride which is awesome because Aiden LOVES steam trains!!!!!Well, at least I think he does, he's never has actually seen one before because they are pretty rare. Turns out (big shocker) he loved it! The whistle was a little loud which scared him at first but he got used to it. We rode the steam ride three times. The first time we sat in an open car and the last two times we sat in the caboose which was pretty cool. The seats were red velvet and it was filled with character. It was even in a movie starring Marilyn Monroe which I thought was pretty cool.
All week Aiden has been looking forward to the train museum. He plays "acation" (vacation) with his toy animals and pretends to bring them to a train museum. He gets them tickets and puts them on his train like they are riding the train.
We woke up early and hit the road. We got there around 9:45am and Aiden was kinda excited! LOL!

The train museum had a model train exhibit, a train yard filled with locomotives, box cars, dining cars, mails car and every other train thing you can think of. Aiden loved going inside and pulling all the levers and ringing the bell.