A short trip

 Last month, my husband had to go to Sacramento for a conference.  A couple of weeks before, his radiator in his car broke, so we fixed it knowing that this trip was coming.  Then his car started to act up again before he was supposed to leave.  At that point I was going to be left home with 3 kids and no car for 2 days.  We decided, instead, I would just go with him.  We drove up Sunday night and stayed until Tuesday afternoon.

Watching Winnie the Pooh while waiting to get into bed.

Monday, while ben was at his class, we went to the Sacramento Zoo.  Well, first we tried to go to the Science Museum (more educational for my little truant) but apparently they weren't open on Mondays to the public.  So off to the zoo to see the animals.

checking out snakes, or maybe a lizard.  dont remember 

loving the flamingos

the kids convinced me to let them ride the train, which wasnt a train at all

it was really lame, but the kids, of course, loved it

ben

ethan

brynna

this tiger was looking right at me.  i think he was hungry

I made the kids walk the whole way (didn't think to bring a stroller with us)  so when we got back to the car they all crashed.  Brynna was still asleep when we got back to the hotel.  So this is how we spent the rest of the afternoon:

Brynna slept

and yes this is how she really sleeps.  her hands are always there 

Ben did homework

he was loving the rolling chair

 And Ethan played with his leapster

he realized i was taking a picture and so he kinda posed

The next day I took the kids to the train museum.  The plan was to go the the train museum in the morning and then the science museum in the afternoon, but the kids decided they like the trains too much.

inside one of the engines  

all sorts of fruit packing lables.  

in a passenger car that was on this moving mount so we were rocking around the whole time.  it was cool

the dining car had these creepy mannequins that looked a bit too real 

posing with another engine

the mail car was really cool

And the reason the kids decided to stay there so long.... Thomas!  The whole upstairs was dedicated to model trains and half of it was a thomas play area.  there were 4 train tables plus a table that had a motorized thomas the train.  the kids were in heaven!

motorized thomas 

the kids were having a ball (little boy walked in front of brynna right as i was taking the pic of her and ethan)

look at that concentration 

his new "what i am going to be when i grow up" is a train engineer

When were were done at the museum, ben was done with his class so we met up and drove home.  It was a very nice mini vacation!