Trains & Pigs

Apparently I've wigged out blogger.com because of all the pictures I want to upload. I had this great post with stories to go with each picture, but it's gone...gone to where posts go to die. And no amount of voodoo computer magic is bringing them back. So...here's my less enthusiastic report on yesterday's events.

These are the best of our train pictures. In whatever order blogger decided to put them. The top picture is Ike and Jake on the way home in the snack car. They were happier than they look. :)

The second picture is Ike and Jake waiting for our train at the Depot in Greensboro. I love that you can see downtown Greensboro in the background, but the train in the shot is a Norfolk Southern freight train, not ours. We loved the train ride. We loved not having to deal with parking, gas, etc, and we loved the free snacks. :) I'd recommend it to anyone traveling with small children. Or anyone traveling anywhere, really.

Picture three is Jake and me boarding the train from Lexington. Lexington doesn't have a train station (shocking, I know), but just for the BBQ festival, Amtrak stops at this one spot. The information about it on the BBQ Festival's website said they'd have the red carpet rolled out for us...Well, anyway, we had a plywood platform and some really nice old men in conductor uniforms...

I've put the rest of the pictures in a "flickr badge" on the side of my blog. Thanks, Brandee, for helping me figure out how to do this! Anyway, you should be able to click on it and see the pictures plus what I've written about them.