Family Field Trip Friday

My best friend's mother-in-law had given us tickets to ride the Mt. Hood Railroad. We decided we'd better make the trip before they ended the rides until April.
We surprised the kids the morning of. I told them they all had to go to bed early Thursday night because we were getting up early to clean the house on Friday.
Friday morning came, and Chris woke everyone up by announcing that we weren't cleaning, but going on the train ride.
It was so much fun. The colors of the leaves were so pretty. It was a day well spent with each other.

Here we are waiting inside the old train station.

Pulling out of the train station.

Us girls sat together.

Myles and Chris had two big seats all to themselves.
They had fun watching the scenery,
playing rock-paper-scissors and I Spy.

Apparently, there aren't too many tracks on the west coast that
use a switchback to get up the hills.

We switched tracks, and the engine on the back started pulling us.

There is where we were.

Myles had to use the bathroom on the train.
When he came back to his seat he let me know that it was
"quite a challenge, mom!"

The train rocked a lot.
It really made us sleepy.


After an hour and a half ride up, we had an hour for lunch.

Time to head home.
Elsa took a nap.

It was a lot darker coming home, and having the lights on
in the train added a bit of nostalgia.

On our way back to Washington, we stopped at
Multnomah Falls.
The kids had never been there.

Can you spy Chris, Aeva and Myles?

That was our family field trip in a nutshell.
Such a beautiful trip, and a wonderful memory made.