The Crockers: National Train Day

May 10 was National Train Day. You didn't know that, did you? Not many people did. I'm pretty sure it was the first ever National Train Day in history, but when you're Amtrak, I guess you get to declare national holidays whenever you want. Being Saturday, lots of folks were off work for the occasion. The banks were closed (in the afternoon), and most of downtown Raleigh was completely shut down. . . unless it's always like that.

Anyway, we had a good time riding a train from Charlotte to Raleigh and back on NTD. We arrived in Charlotte Friday evening to discover that Grandmother had provided Paul with, in addition to train tickets, a train outfit, train hat, train Jibbetts (hadn't heard of them, but apparently they're all the rage for decorating Crocs), a train toy, and train animal cookies. Then she tried to convince us that Granddad was the most excited of anyone to take this train ride. I'll let you decide. Granddad was the one who bought the toy whistle in the train station.

When we arrived in Raleigh, not having a car seat, we set off on a scenic walk to Pullen Park for a family picnic with Grandmother and Big Mac, two of Jon's dad's brothers, an aunt, several cousins and two other baby (2 years, 6 months) cousins once removed. We had fun there eating chicken and riding the little train ride. (Interesting side note: we have very similar train ride pictures of Jon, me, Laura, and Kendra taken the day after Jon and I were engaged.)

Here are the pictures.