Downtown Dallas Fun

What a night!!! Great fun, food, friends and new adventures!!!

We actually spent the evening in Downtown Dallas almost as tourists in our own home town. I must say I haven't done much of that since I have lived in this area since I was 5 years old.
Evening started out with Marcus' first train ride on the Dart Rail. He loved it for the speed and the fact there was no seatbelt (go figure for a 4 year old)...lol

Got off the train to stand in line (yes in the heat) for the Disney Christmas Carol Train Tour @ Union Station. Marcus enjoyed the bigger train and looking at the behind the scenes movie stuff. He likes Scrooge...go figure! The best part was at the end when you got to morph your own picture into a character picture from the movie. The last train car smellled soooo good like Christmas gingerbread!! Made me excited for Christmas time already. We can't wait for the movie and hopefully Marcus will remember and think about what we already saw from the train.

Last night also included Marcus' first trip to a porto-potty...even as a lucky boy with no need to touch anything, he refused to go cuz "it was nasty and stuff in the icky water" - his words! He's more girlie than me sometimes. He was a trooper and held it for about another hour to a clean RR at TGIF. Dinner at a cool place (for the kids) with a huge image of Superman on the wall and all. We had some hungry kids complete with ice cream for dessert.

To end the evening experience in downtown, we were able to talk the horse-drawn carriage driver down on his price and took the kids on a ride thru the West End. They loved it and this by far was the best part of the night. The weather was perfect by this time and the kids enjoyed waving as our horse Princess Jasmine or "Jazzy" trotted along the streets. I myself have always wanted to do this and we got to do it together!!! The driver was very nice and friendly (by that I mean very talkative) and even played kid music during the ride -- Wheels on the Bus & On Top of Spagetti!! Even though Marcus love the ride, he didn't want to get close to the horse. Maybe next time.

Ended the night with a train ride back to Garland to our car and watching the storm clouds roll in . Complete with wind and trash blowing around the cobble streets of the West End. Marcus crashed hard and all night long!!!