About 2 hours driving to the Railroad Museum from our house. It was a beautiful sunny day. We bought tickets for train ride at 11:00 AM but we were 5 minutes late so we had to wait for the next train; which means we have about 1 hour to spend in this area before riding the Thomas train.
William loved the traffic signs area with lights and sounds; he also liked to climb up the old trains.
But 1 thing he did not like is to ride the Thomas train! He kicked and cried while we were walking to our train car; so I had to pick him up and carry him to find the car. Finally we got in, he did not want to stay; and it got worse when the captain started to talk: he covered his ears! Obviously he is not a big fan of Thomas The Train! But overall it was a fun day.
Everyone rides the train will get a certificate.
Other activities that he liked was petting and riding the shuttle around.
Tim loves to Selfie!
On the way out, we bought him the Thomas balloon; he loved it so much that he kept smiling when holding on to the balloon. Later at night he used the balloon as his pillow.
Sunday 10:00 AM, we went to pumpkin patch at the Irvine Railroad Park. William had lots of fun riding the car and the pony. He kept saying “No Tutu Train”.
William was really bad at riding the car but the staffs there was really nice and patient. However on the 2nd time, we waited for 20 minutes this time, the new young man staff was not as much patient, he let William out of the race because William hit the hay stack. Poor little William, he kept saying “I want to try again” but they would not let William go back in.
Most of the activities cost 1 ticket, which is $5.00. Pony ride is $5.00 too which pay at the Pony area, no need to get the ticket because it’s a different company.
We’ve been reading the book Zoo Animals almost every night, and I realized that we have not taken him to the zoo! What a terrible mistake so we decided to go today; there’s a small Santa Ana zoo which is around 15 minutes away from our house. He was so excited to get ready!
Zoo entrance. A nice gentleman offered to take a picture for us. Thank you!
What can we find in the zoo? what animal? – I asked while we were on the way there.
Dog! – William replied after a pause of thinking.
OK, what else?
Sheep!
What animal has a long neck? He could not remember, so I reminded him “Gi…”
Giraffe! – He said.
But too bad we could not find giraffe at this small zoo. This zoo has lots of monkeys, some birds, camels and few other animals. It’s really a small zoo!
Selfie time!
Admission fee: $33 for 3 of us. (Annual membership for a family of 4 would cost $99, which is valid at at most all zoos).
After we paid entrance fee and got in, he looked around, sat on a chair and said “I want to go home!”.
He didn’t care much about the animals, he loved to touch the metal boxes that they put through out the zoo. At some point he liked to watch the monkeys fighting. I tried to persuade him to take the little train; he said no at first but after he saw one passing by, he said yes. (It requires 3 tix per person, $1.5 per ticket so $4.5 for each person). William was waiting patiently with us without running around for the next train to come, which is a really good behavior. But when we got seated, the train conductor started to talk, William cried. I guess it was so loud for him and he didn’t expect to hear that. After a few seconds of comforting him, telling him everything is gonna be ok, then he stopped crying.
He touched this box whenever he saw one!
William did not seem to enjoy the zoo or train very much. We planned to go the San Diego zoo but after seeing his reaction at the zoo today we’re not sure if we want to take him back to the zoo any time soon. It’s 2 hours drive to San Diego zoo and if he’s not enjoy much then it’s not worth it.
