Ogden Union Station & Prairie Schooner

We took Grandma Rainey to the Ogden Union Station where she got a Senior National Park Pass which gets her into every NPS location for the REST OF HER LIFE. I'm so jealous. I can't wait until TB is 62 or whatever...

Ogden is such a cool town to visit! The children's museum is awesome, 25th Street is full of cute shops (A Sock Shop!) and restaurants, the dinosaur park is great, and there are decorated horses everywhere. This is Spumoni Pony.

 

Our favorite, of course, is Union Station with the Utah State Railroad Museum and old car museum where we drove the elderly museum volunteers crazy, watched the greatest model train, and we sat in a super-cushy velvet train seat.

 

My best find for the month were these posters of Jupiter and No. 119 which are the locomotives that met at the Golden Spike. The posters are signed and numbered by the artist and I just had to have them. (Who's obsessed with trains?) I was so excited that they cost 13% of what I was (pretty much) prepared to pay. Grandma Rainey went to a store with us to get poster sticky stuff and helped hang them over Ikey's bed. Grandma Rainey also gave Ikey a caboose with a pencil sharpener in it which made his day. He picked out a little plastic chest of drawers at the store. "I can organize my pencil sharpener and all my pencils!" He is in heaven right now because I let him take all this stuff to naptime. Jovie is ticked off because I didn't give her a pencil sharpener for naptime, even though "I PROMISE not to stick my tongue in it!" I told her you have to be three to use scissors and pencil sharpeners.

 

Grandma Rainey treated us to lunch at Prairie Schooner where we ate good food in a covered wagon. It was just the perfect thing.

Jovie borrowed my camera and took more pictures of her feet and of me in my pre-fancy, early morning finest. I think she messed up some settings because the photos from our latest adventure are pretty bad. We didn't get even one decent photo of Grandma Rainey, even though she was integral to this trip.