The Birthday Bonanza Weekend- Day 1

As promised, Oma and Opa let me pick them up from the airport after school for a long weekend if birthday fun!
It also coincided with my fall break from school, so I had extra days to goof off with them. The first day was serious business at the children's museum followed by lunch at Logan's (it's an old Seaboard Train Station with a cafe and tracks running outside it with a CSX line of trains passing by). It was marvelous!

In the photo above, Opa and I are standing in front of a chunk of the Berlin Wall. The museum also had a photo of the chunk and its original location to authenticate it. (match up the graffiti - yeah). Pretty cool, huh?


Mommy joined me for an Indian tea party.


Meanwhile, Oma and Opa fanned me with colorful saris.


I don't remember inviting girls (other than Mommy) to my tea party! Scram!


Maybe we should count the teapots again. Some might have disappeared. That little girl looked kind of shifty, like she was up to stealing a teapot or two.


Listen, chick. Pouring is really more my thing.


Congas! My fave!


I Chee Chee, it's the Rio Carnivale!


Oma and Opa taught me how to walk on stilts (sort of).


Opa is good at it (thank goodness those are some sturdy buckets to support a full-grown Opa).


Giving a little love to the Wolfie! Go Pack!


I'm tired of all this warm weather! I think I could use a refreshing trip to Alaska! Ice fishing and igloo building are the best!


I'm so strong, I can pick up an entire sheet of ice!


It's a sophisticated design so far, but maybe it needs a little more modern edge. Let me think a minute! Where is Uncle Jon the architect when you need him?


Oooo, I found a new friend for Toby and Scout!


Opa and I found the racetrack on steroids (it's huge compared to my own at home).


No trip is complete without a stop at the train tables. Still a boy's best friend!


Opa and I went out on a ledge, literally (which actually overlooks the street and cars below). Awesome!


I spell it S-C-H-O-O-L B-U-S.

Mom spells it C-H-E-E-S-E W-A-G-O-N. Go figure?


Sit down and buckle up. It's going to be a crazy ride!


Mom and I can barely see straight watching the marbles zoom around and around.


Like I said above, lunch at Logan's.


Several trains passed by during our lunch. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.


Can you believe they sell "bam-boo" here? I'm in the wrong business just being a little kid. Instead I need to open a bamboo business with the shoots we have sprouting up in the backyard.



Look, we found it, we found it. Oma and I found the Great Pumpkin after all!