For our "Faux Father's Day" day with Grandpa, we headed over to Tilden Park in Berkeley. The first stop was the steam train. Owen was so excited to ride the train; we had been talking about it all morning. He held our ticket all by himself and handed it to the guy so he could punch it as we got on. Then he picked out a seat for us and kept saying, "All aboard!" And then the train started. He was fine at first, but then the train made a loud "Choo choo!" noise and steam came out, and Owen got a little freaked out. I spent the rest of the train ride with him in my lap saying, "I don't like the train." Afterwards he seemed to have forgotten his fear because he kept talking about the train ride, so I hope we can go again a little less fearfully. And maybe not so close to that noisy engine.
We followed up the train ride with a picnic lunch near the Brazil Room where the highlight for Owen was seeing some robin birds (and where a wedding was being held at 1:30 on a Monday afternoon???) Then in a race to beat naptime, we squeezed in a quick ride on the carousel. Owen was asleep in the car before we even got back on the freeway.
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