The Train Museum

The Butchart Family (as presently constituted) in front of the giant Christmas Tree in Old Sacramento. We drove down there this morning to see the Train Museum, and the weather was beautiful.

The light was in the wrong place (okay, I was in the wrong place) so the sun created havoc with this shot. But it has some important people in it, so I included it anyway.

This is probably my favorite photo of the day - the three kids all holding hands and walking down the boardwalk along the river in Old Sac. It was actually a staged shot, but the girls were holding hands of their own accord, and Michelle asked Atticus to join them (which he did). How can anybody say they have cuter grand kids than we have? The rain coats were absolutely unnecessary. By the time the museum opened at 10:00, the sun was so warm everyone had stripped down to their T-shirts.

Inside the museum, Elizabeth got fussy and camera shy, but I managed to get a couple of poor quality photos of her and Jane (in the blue) as they sat in the engineer's seat on one of the MASSIVE trains.

And of course, the day became spectacular when we stopped at McDonalds for lunch. Atticus downed copious quantities of McNuggets, and the girls did their share too. After the main course, we had warm chocolate chip cookies - which Lizzie mostly got in her mouth.

Mom bought a Family pass that's good for a year, so everyone needs to plan on getting down there with us sometime during the next year (you too, Kim and David).