Mammoth Workhorse, Day 7

Friday, May 22

Railroad museum day! I’d mentioned to little Edward that there was a railroad museum we might go to, and he kept asking when. So I decreed that this would be the day!

We had an easy breakfast of quesadillas, oatmeal, sausage-egg muffins, and leftover pork cbops. Ed made the gravy. Then we headed out to Las Cruces to the railroad museum.

We had all three kids in the Jeep and google took us on the trans-mountain loop. Cool drive and much enjoyed. Only at the end of the 50-minute drive did they get restless and start to annoy us with the racket. It was fun racket, though.

We had to stop at the New Mexico welcome center for grownups to pee, so having that little break helped.

I can’t say enough good things about the train museum. There were three model trains, one of which was operational. Outside there were a couple of real trains on tracks—actual working trains—that came by, one slowly easing along, probably for show, and one that left the station picking up speed and tooted at us as it went by. 

 They had an interactive, big screen game--"build your own train.” On a timed challenge. Everyone tried their hand at that. And they had a big playset of wooden tracks for kids to construct their own track and run wooden toy trains on. Once Edward got started playing with that, it was hard to pull him away.

For the grownups, there were exhibits and an old guy working there who had lots of stories to tell.

 

After a good long time, we finally left and found a nearby sonic drive-in. Then we came back to the RV park and played on the playground. For supper we did carryout fish ‘n chips for grownups at the Tugboat Seafood nearby, and made chicken nuggets for the kids.