I am always conscious of how quickly these years with our children as children/young adolescents is moving past. If we have a moment free on a weekend - which is a rarity with 4 busy children, we try to grab the moment and do a 'family' activity.
Our past weekend was spent enjoying one such activity. We bundled the family into the car and did a small road trip to visit the 'Trainworks - rail and train museum', Thirlmere, NSW
This adventure was fun for young and old (from Bubsieboo to Grandpa we all loved our day!)
The day started with a steam train ride. Let's face it, it is the slowest way to travel!!! We loved it. The kids enjoyed the adventure of meeting a train driver, watching the driver throw coal onto the fire, being covered with smoke from the puffing engine and watching the loco change from one end of the train to the other.
Once this had concluded we enjoyed a picnic in the grounds and then a walk through the museum. Seriously I had no interest in trains previous to this, but the experience that allowed us to visit the train travelled in by the Queen and Prince Phillip in the 1950's, a prison train, the train of the NSW government and other interesting first class trains - left me in awe of the workmanship of the olden trains. The nasty red rattler's brought back bad childhood memories, when we would wait on the station and pray that the train would be one of the new 'silver' trains and then the 'tangara'.
I have never before contemplated NSW trains, but now have a new found respect for the rail transportation system.
Our children ran over dis-used train tracks, played hide and seek in carriages and played on the playground. We were lucky as the weather was perfect winter sunshine. Everyone left our family day feeling happy, calm and ready to hit the road for our trip home. Content sleeping children lay in the back of the car, cuddled together.
Truly happy family memories & maybe a future in trainspotting!!
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