All Aboard

Yesterday, we went to lunch with 4 other little friends in order to celebrate our neighbor, Austin's, birthday.  One of the moms recommended this place called All Aboard, and claimed that it was a train themed restaurant.  I figured it would be something fun and different for the girls, and we wanted to be there for Austin anyway.

Well, this was over the top!  You walked in to a giant model train set up with all sorts of extras, like fire trucks, carousel, school house and much more.  The kids can push little buttons on the side of the model to make things go, whistle and turn.  Each and every kid could have happily stayed there for at least 30 minutes.  

Inside, there was an elevated track that ran around the entire restaurant, with a train making continuous loops.  Lots of arcade games geared for the under 5 crowd, and the art was all train related.  Even the bathroom was painted with train stuff, and had a train step stool for the kids to reach the sink.

We sat at the counter on little stools.  The counter was a long, narrow circle, and of course there was another train on that.  That train had 8 cars attached to it, with little diner baskets glued on to them.  It turns out that when your order is ready, they put the food (in baskets) on the train and it brings the food out to your spot.  It was hilarious!  Cassidy kept looking down the track to see where her food was, or at least when it was coming.  The food wasn't wonderful, but because they were having so much fun with all the stimulation, the girls ate well and didn't seem bothered.  We got dessert for the birthday, and it too came out on the train, to a cooky "Happy Birthday" song.  Austin's cupcake was lit with a candle as the train made it's way.  Seriously, could a little boy get any happier?  Taylor enjoyed the frosting on her cupcake and forgot to eat the cake, and Cassidy only ate a few bites of her chocolate ice cream (yay, less mess to wipe up off of her).  

I thought this was a great place and I can't wait to take Dave there.  He'll probably really like it since he's a boy!

While we were inside, it rained about 2 inches (literally) outside, and it was ridiculous driving home.  I really don't get the weather here.  Or why people live in such a place, but that's another story.