A Busy Saturday - part 1

It was a busy three day weekend with the grandkids, overall, but Saturday was the day we squeezed a lot of activities into one day.

When we awoke on Saturday morning, we piled into the car and headed to the cider mill up the road to purchase a dozen apple cider donuts right as they were pulled from the big kettle of oil. We headed home with a big bag of warm donuts and made some breakfast. 

By 10:00 am or so, we were back in the car and heading to a local train show with the grandkids. We got to look at what a few vendors were selling as well as some operating model railroads. It was a nice show.

Most of these model railroads were set up for kids to play... buttons to push to control trains, lights, railroad crossings... Thomas the Train tables... more buttons to push to control trains on other layouts... and even steps in the form of bleachers to boost up the little ones so they could view the taller model railroads. 

The basement of the building was dedicated to "operating model railroads" including a "live steam" railroad that could haul children and adults around the perimeter of the basement! Since we were in a basement with glossy, painted brick walls, it reminded me of a subway station. It was interesting having these massive operating model trains set up in a basement.

Although this particular train show is small by train show standards, the kids had a great time!

After the train show, we headed north... we had lunch at The Olive Garden (a rather poor lunch, at best... which is typical but at least it is newly renovated and clean) and then headed to another favorite of the grandkids' (which will be my next blog entry).


NOTE:  While we were at this train show, I tested out another of the three used Canon lenses I recently purchased. All of the photos in this blog entry were shot using an ultra-wide angle Canon 20-35mm lens on my Sony camera body. The lighting was poor... rather dim light... odd colored light of mixed types... and yet the lens did very well under these rather challenging conditions. I'm still getting used to this lens but, so far, I'm really happy!

This photo reminds me of a train pulling into a subway station...

...and... lunch at The Olive Garden...