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 Here's a day Daddy Grandpa Travis and Jared visited the North American Model Train show at Cobo Center in Detroit. As you can see, the boy was quite distracted by all the cool train stuff  Here's a nice layout of a very detailed fishing village  And another shot of the same layout. I thought this one was the best  And now Legos!  Legos!  And more Legos! And a baseball game to boot, how neat  Very cool shuttle made from, you guessed it, Legos!  Here's a neat Star Wars scene made from even more Legos!  So get this, we take a ride on the Detroit Peoplemover and who should get on? The King! He was sure to thankusverymuch  Back at home for a hearty home-cooked dinner. Here's the boy munching on some yummy, buttery sweet corm, mmmmm  Ok, zero real transition here, but this is actually taken on a visit to Great-Grandma Shirley's in Wisconsin. Here's our little ankle-biter saying hi to some goats at the Rock County 4H fair. He loves animals so much  And here's some baby duckies  It was really cute, the duckies would swim around and then climb all over the wire mesh and ramps and repeat. Hi duckie!  And here's the family riding the carousel they had at the fair  Look how big I am!  Here's Great-Grandma Shirley reading the paper with a super-cute little boy  This was taken at a place called the Liberty Station in Milton (Wisconsin). It's a restaurant made out of the old train station, plus we're actually sitting inside a caboose for lunch!  And a shot of the family with all the railroad memorabilia  Mama and Jared posing in front of the CNW engine they have sitting out front  Nearby farmer Meyer sells pumpkins for Halloween and he took it upon himself to have the coolest silo cap around  This is on our trip to Wisconsin Dells, a very exciting tourist city in mid-Wisconsin (I highly recommend it for a fun family summer vacation of any length). Here we are at the Wisconsin Deer Park where they have hundreds of deer that are so tame you can feed them and even pet them too  Jared feeding a friendly buck  Oooo, so soft and velvety  While at the Dells, we visited the Riverside and Great Northern Railway. It's a small, 15" track train that rides into the woods and back. As if you couldn't guess, Jared was totally geeked to ride it  As you can see, everything is scaled down to match the train size, including the buildings and water tower. Look out, it's a giant boy!  And a shot of the roundhouse and turntable  Daddy and his awesome little boy  Add Mama into the mix  Looking over the bridge in the woods. Yeah, the fence doesn't make for a great picture, but it was still cool to experience  Here's the engineer and conductor prepping the train for the trip back  At the end of the (single) line into the woods, they load the engine and tender onto a turntable  Then they turn it around to head back to the station  But before they could hook it back up...oops! Derail! Dissed! We had to get shuttled back to the station eventually, and missed a ride back on the train, but oh well, it was still really fun and we'll be sure to do it again  Now here's a couple of cool myna birds at an African safari park in the area. It's actually the old Storybook Gardens that they added some animals too. It had some cool things, but overall it was really junky and I don't recommend it  Jared checking out a tortise  And ooooo, a giraffe checking out the boy, how cool!  Now we transition back to Janesville where we're having dinner at Shakey's Pizzeria. It's a yummy pizza buffet with all sorts of good food. Here's Mama and Great-Grandma Shirley  And Jared sharing his ice cream cone with Great Aunt Carol  And finally Mama and the boy smiling for the adoring masses  Time to go back home, but we had a great time! |
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