The Cook's: Train Overload

We had the "nothing but train (thomas)" day today....as at 10am we made the walk to the train station to catch the 10:30 train to Downers Grove to go eat lunch at TwoToots. Its all of an 12 minute train ride - just enough being they got to do it there and back. We were the first in the door at TwoToots when it opened at 11...smart thing, as by 11:20, no tables left. Kids had their lunch delivered by train and of course, you can see real trains goin by outside as well.

Being we had an hour left to catch the 1:15 train back to Naperville - we made the short walk over to Prince Pond in Downers Grove (a great little piece of history - basically, in 1890, a developer dug out 1/2 of a city block and turned into a pond to better attract people to buy his houses - 100+years later - pretty valuable property). We had come close to purchasing a teardown lot about 2 blocks away from it 2 years ago - but the lot was simply too close to the train.

We caught the 1:15 back and then made the walk back home in Naperville. All in all, a very cool way to spend a day without having to ever get in a car...next up sometime, taking the train down to the Brookfiled Zoo Stop...

Every train is "thomas" to Connor...