Verde Canyon Railroad Excursion Part Three
For those of you who like train pictures, this post is exclusively for you!
Verde Canyon Railroad Excursion Part Three
For those of you who like train pictures, this post is exclusively for you!
Today I am sharing a few pictures from the first portion of our Verde Canyon Railroad excursion that we took last Saturday. The day was very cold (in the forties), windy and spitting rain/snow off and on all day long. I wish we could have had a more typical Arizona brilliant blue sky as a backdrop for the beautiful scenery! But the ride was fun, the scenery gorgeous, and hopefully we’ll get to do it again someday when it is just a bit warmer!
The first portion of the ride was across wide open spaces with snow covered mountains in the background.
After about a half hour of following the Verde River, the wide open plain narrowed up as the river carved deeper into the valley.
Tomorrow I’ll post pictures of cliff dwellings and caves that ancient peoples used for homes and to keep safe.
This was Miss Munchkin’s first Christmas where she connected requests for presents with the holiday. Her number one most desired present? A train. Just like in the store. Nothing else would do. What’s a Grandma to do?
After looking at several different train sets, I settled on the Melissa & Doug Deluxe Wooden Railway Set. We have purchased several Melissa & Doug products since Miss Munchkin’s birth and found them all to be well made, durable, and best of all, well-loved by Miss Munchkin. The train set seems to be all of the above, in addition to fun for Uncles and Grandpas to play with.
A bit overwhelmed at the size of the box and actually getting the much-desired train!
The train is now set up on our dining room table, where it is more readily reached by said Uncle and Grandpa. I am sure it will be the subject of future posts. Grandpa is already talking about taking Miss Munchkin to ride a real train. Let’s hope that will be more successful than the time we took our three to ride a train. Charles was about Miss Munchkin’s age, maybe a tad bit younger, and when that train appeared down the track, he began to scream at the noise it made. I am not sure which was louder, Charles’s screams or the train’s whistle! He did settle down, though, and enjoy the ride.
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