Train Museum

Friday afternoon I had a doctor's appointment in Pensacola, so the boys and I opted to make a day of it and go to the West Florida Train Museum on our way. It's in a little (but from what we saw, cute) town of Milton. They have some great trains that they've restored that you can walk through, some replica's of trains, a diner train restored that you can use for birthday parties and such, and even a small train on a small track that the little kids can ride. The gentlemen that run the museum were so generous to us and turned the air on in the diner so we could eat our packed lunch in there and even though there were no other little ones at the museum, they drove Nolan (and Brian) in the train. Unfortunately, Nolan was not himself. We kept thinking he was being shy or was too hot, but at lunch realized it was more serious. He was burning up a fever and would barely drink. We felt pretty crummy that we had been making him walk around in the heat...you could tell he WANTED to be excited, but he must have felt pretty bad. After we left, we headed to Target and bought him some Children's Motrin, which helped for a time. He ended up being sick all weekend and it was confirmed Monday that he had strep throat, poor baby. In the fall they have a festival at the train museum, so we plan on taking Nolan then...when it's both cooler and he's feeling better!!

The boys in front of the Flat Car, built in 1952:

Nolan and I in front of the "bay window caboose" built in 1965 : Who's that cutie in the window?This is the Frisco caboose, built in 1934! Beautiful!

Brian and Nolan had to climb a ladder to sit up here and catch this view in the Frisco caboose. Of course, it was like 120 degrees up there, which is really sad since we didn't realize poor Nolan was already running a fever!

The train Nolan got to ride. This was a huge red flag that something wasn't right with him, because he could have cared less...and he loves trains so much!! Later, when he was feeling better, he did talk about how he got to ride a train. We're in the diner car now, getting ready to eat. Next to us, a "real live" train is going by! Nolan said it was going to see Santa...because according to him, that's where ALL trains go!