The Museum of Transportation

Our Connecticut cousins were in town, and we had so much fun getting all of the cousins together (see our Six Flags post below and our awesome homemade tie-dye shirts)! We had purchased Groupons to The Museum of Transportation a while back to use during their trip here. We have fun with our cousins no matter what, but...it was really, really hot the day we went to the Museum (though we didn't have any not hot days to choose from). This trip was a first for many of us and there was kind of mixed feeling about the Museum. Those feelings might have been heavily influenced by the excessive heat warning in effect for the area. But the kids enjoyed it and I think it could be neat in nice weather (as long as you use some sort of coupon).

We started off with the train ride, which actually starts with a tram ride to the tracks.

The train looks a lot like the one at the zoo. It's not a real long ride, but they do take you around twice.

Then we entered the only air-conditioned part of our adventure, which unfortunately, lasts maybe 10 minutes with kids, probably closer to five. They have several cars from movies or that were owned by famous people. However, my kids had never heard of them. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, I'm not really ready to see anything of Justin Bieber's in a museum.

Then we explored all the trains. This would be a great place for kids obsessed with trains.

They have a couple trains they allow people to ring the bell on. Very popular with kids, even if some of them aren't strong enough to do it themselves. Brenton would want me to make sure that you all knew he could do it himself though.

You can take a short tour of the passenger trains.

One sweaty group! But they were good and had fun anyway.

The Museum also has a Creation Station play area for an additional charge (the train ride was also an additional fee) that we did not do.