Union Station

So, we tried to take a family trip to Union Station in Kansas City while Mimi and Aunt Ashleigh were here, but as luck would have it, Alison vomited all over herself (and I do mean ALL over!) in the van on the way there. Luckily, we were not very far into our trip. We (meaning Zachary) was even more lucky that Aunt Ashleigh, Mimi, and Grandma were nice enough to take Ali and baby Braxton home in the van while Mommy, Daddy, and Zachary piled into Daddy's truck and headed down to Union Station! Zachary was all smiles and SO excited to be in Daddy's truck and to go see "Rudy" (a special Christmas train that looks similar to a Thomas train)! We had reserved a time to go on Rudy but with all the hooplah, we ended up getting there an hour late. We were again really lucky that even though we missed our time, we got to stand in the reservation line vs. the 4 hour line! It still took about an hour to get through the line and walk through Rudy's cars, but Zachary didn't seem to mind the line and did well until we got off of Rudy. The poor little guy was really wanting to take a ride on Rudy and was thoroughly disappointed (he wouldn't even look up to see Rudy's face when we walked by because he was crying so hard!) when we got off and he realized that was all we got to do. We got him back inside and once he saw all the other millions of trains again, he was better. It also helped that he got to ride on the little train inside! :) The Christmas train village they had set up inside Union Station was amazing and we were all enthralled by it! It was hard to get him to leave, and again there were a lot of tears, but it all worked out and it was "fun"! Here are some of the best pictures from our time there...