Our history group is on the road again....this time we're out visiting the Transportation Museum of Roanoke. We are begining our study of the industrial revolution and we've gone to the museum to see the changes that occured in the transportation field during this time period.
Our first stop is the amazing miniture train set display. They had a circus display.... Thomas the Tank Engine was sighted too.
I loved the windows down on the kids level. Ohhhhh, Liam was in heaven. Cars, cars, cars and trains, trains, trains!! All the kids stayed here, totally enthralled, for a good 20 to 30 minutes.
Cailin enjoyed the playground. It was neat to see the City of Roanoke--in miniture form!
The kids got to see the progression of cars....from the horseless carriage all the way to our modern transportation. Ryan loved the replica of Jeff Gordon's car from a movie.
They weren't as impressed with the cars as they were with the trains....
They had a fun train engine that they all loved to play in...pretending to be an engineer.
They loved making the bell dong loud and clear.....ouch my ears hurt after a while. Why do kids never seem to tire of loud noises?
Okay.....let's leave the bell and go outside to the real trains..... Connor was great, I didn't worry about Liam at all, Connor and his friend Noah kept him under eye and care for the whole trip.
Along with the trains we found an older fashioned semi-truck. Great Grandpa Grant use to drive one of these types of trucks for the Centex Company when Grandma Stumm was a girl.
They had a fun train engine that they all loved to play in...pretending to be an engineer.
They loved making the bell dong loud and clear.....ouch my ears hurt after a while. Why do kids never seem to tire of loud noises?
Okay.....let's leave the bell and go outside to the real trains..... Connor was great, I didn't worry about Liam at all, Connor and his friend Noah kept him under eye and care for the whole trip.
Along with the trains we found an older fashioned semi-truck. Great Grandpa Grant use to drive one of these types of trucks for the Centex Company when Grandma Stumm was a girl.
Semi's have changed quite a bit.
We saw how trains changed from steam to diesel. We even got to go through what would be the equivelent of Air Force One...the luxury train that carried the President of the US around during the first of the 1900's time era.
The museum had a fun little playground and the kids had loads of fun playing on the different modes of transportation shown.
Delaney the Engineer
Time to refuel the group.
Off for more playing and discovering throughout the musuem. I had to leave early for a doctors appointment. My great friends divided up the kids so they could stay for more adventures and I was able to have a few hours to myself....hummmm how long can I stretch this out for?
Helicopter fun!
We saw how trains changed from steam to diesel. We even got to go through what would be the equivelent of Air Force One...the luxury train that carried the President of the US around during the first of the 1900's time era.
The museum had a fun little playground and the kids had loads of fun playing on the different modes of transportation shown.
Delaney the Engineer
Time to refuel the group.
Off for more playing and discovering throughout the musuem. I had to leave early for a doctors appointment. My great friends divided up the kids so they could stay for more adventures and I was able to have a few hours to myself....hummmm how long can I stretch this out for?
Helicopter fun!
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