a day uptown

On Sunday, our playgroup planned a trip to see The Velveteen Rabbit performed by our local Children's Theatre.  We've always been impressed by their performances in the past and Neland was very excited about this one. We rode the train uptown.

We had great seats for the performance and Neland was on the edge of his the whole time. None of us really remember the story of The Velveteen Rabbit, and we were all balling by the end. Neland did not really understand the story, even though he enjoyed it. After the show we visited the Ritz Carlton to see the HUGE gingerbread house and then enjoyed the singing bears in Founder's Hall.

Afterwards, the dads met us with younger siblings for dinner at Brixx. When I saw Chris walking towards us, I laughed. He had the stroller (Teague was not in it). In the stroller was NJ's jacket, which I had completely forgotten (we left the house at 8am and hadn't been home since). Chris was carrying Teague, along with his horse, dog, Elmo, blanket and water. Such a sight. After dinner we rode the train back. We took these at the beginning of our ride.

By the end we were sweating trying to keep Teague seated, had gone through a candy cane of bribes and had thought the train trip was about 15 minutes too long (it's a 20 minute ride). We were very happy to get off, Teague possibly the happiest. Neland had a blast with his buddies, so maybe that made the ride worth it.