Nama Dotty is full of surprises...

Ryan loves trains. Thomas the Train is a favorite. Nama Dotty has a friend that has a miniature train or so we thought... miniature - yes but a huge room full of a complete train world.

 We walked into a very large room filled with trains that traveled through tunnels, mountains, bridges, towns, farms, a steel factory and exchange station. 

Poppy was even taken back by all the tracks and levels. 

 Our conductor showed us how it all worked and gave us all turns on being the engineer with the controls. Behind him is the mountain and tunnels. (again a failed photo of the overall picture of the whole room and close up of the Mt.) I was pretty overwhelmed.

Our train left San Antonio and traveled past a farm...

a steel refinery

and back to the station. Ryan was pretty spell bound by the whole experience. He didn't take his eyes off the train and all the mini world around him. What was he thinking???

Leaving the garage size room that was almost wall to wall train world Ryan found trains all over their house. Here he is looking at the glass trains. He started counting them but gave up because there were so many. What a fun and special day. Thanks Nama Dotty.

Chesley taking the controls for the round trip leaving SA and back. Every little/big boys dream.