Festival of Trains

Today we took the boys to Baltimore for the Festival of Trains. I wasn't able to get very many photos of Ben looking at the camera. He was too absorbed in antiques, model engines, round house, riding trains, raiding the gift shop, etc...

This is a photo of Ben wanting to 'hold the train' as it came round the bend.

AJ was a great sport, and was just chillin like a villain as usual.

Then we got Ben to visit with Santa. Given last year's experience we were a little nervous at how it would go. As you can see, it went well.

So well, in fact, he decided to tell Santa not only what he wanted for Christmas (A "Choo Choo"), but about every train he had encountered that day.

We thought we would give AJ a shot on Santa's lap, and this is what happened. Things got a little hairy as Santa's Elf started yelling at me for taking their photo (as if!). AJ started crying once he got a good look at what was going on. You can see my photo wasn't so hot anyway, as Seth quickly grabbed AJ when he started sobbing and we bolted.