Village Park

Ellie and I enjoy going to Village Park in the summer and playing on the Splash pad, riding the train and playing on the playground. This summer one of our visits the train conductor told us about the Christmas lights they put up and we decided to check it out. So Ben, Ellie and I headed there one night and it was a great family event in the community. It was free except the train ride, but the train ride was minimally priced. We started at the model train set up, which was one of Ben's favorites. He has his own model train that he would love to set up and this one was large and interactive. We then saw the singing bears, which are puppets, and Ellie loved them. Santa was there and you could take your own pictures for free with him, but Ellie is not into that this year, we will try next year, but I will say I am a stickler with Santa and look to make sure he looks like the real thing and must have a real beard and this Santa did :) We then rode the train through the over 100,000 lights that were set up and Ellie loved it and so did Ben and I. We ride the train in the summer and never have to wait in line, but that was not the case here. The line was not at all horrible, but Ellie did not understand why she had to wait and after everyone got on and we watched the train pull away while we waited our turn, she turned to Ben and started screaming and crying and saying "Choo-Choo". Her little heart just didn't understand why it left her, but Ben consoled her and we told her it was coming back for us and she looked diligently for it to return. We felt bad her little heart didn't understand, but I also told Ben that we were definitely not ready for Disney World :) Ellie then had a great time dancing and running around while we watched the light show. She kept us laughing. We have fun pretty much anywhere we go together so this was just another adventure that we are looking forward to going to year after year.

I have included many pictures of the model train mainly for my dad, my grandpa and Ben's grandpa as they love model trains and we thought of how much all 3 of them would have loved this model train set up.





Not feeling the picture, just wanted to enjoy that train!