A fun Friday on the train

Yesterday we went to Georgetown, a darling little town in the mountains, they run a train there in the summer time called the Georgetown Loop, it used to carry the silver from there to Silver Plum. Considering that Pierce has been obsessed with trains for nearly a year I wanted to go ride it before they closed it for the winter. The kids didn't have school yesterday and Austin was off so we squeezed it in one week before they closed. We had a great time! The first part of the train ride was not as enjoyable as the second part, we were sitting in the front and the whistle was really loud it was scaring Pierce. But the second half of the ride we were sitting in the very back and wow, the scenery was beautiful all of aspens are golden right now and the weather was perfect, we went over a three hundred foot bridge called Devil's Gate it was breath taking to look down at the river beneath. Then we went into the museum and climbed into to trains that I don't think we were supposed to considered Austin kept telling me to get out, we were respectful but I really wanted to explore! One of the trains had velvet seats and reminded us of the passenger car from polar express, it was both erie and beautiful and we laughed at the tiny little toilet (people must have had smaller butts back then) because it was small! But the funny part was that when you went it was just a straight hole to the ground, so I would guess if you wanted to be polite you would wait till you passed through a town so you wouldn't leave them a present!

Before the ride we stopped in Silver Plume population 200, what a cool, strange little town. It looks like time stood still around 1890, that is the age of most of the houses. The roads are still gravel and aside from the cars and the occasional street sign it would be very easy to feel like you stepped back in time, we ate at this darling little bakery that used to be a feed shop, everything was fresh baked ever the kids hot dog buns! What a treat!