V&T Railroad

Yes, Owen is still obsessed with trains. All week while I was away in Nashville, Micah told Owen that we would ride the train when I returned home. So all week long Owen was repeating, "When mama come home, mama ride choo-choo? Dada go? Me go?" And of course, the little train here in Carson City was not running this weekend. But we made good on our promise and took Owen to Virginia City to ride their much bigger and more historic train. Owen was so excited the entire drive there! He even wore his "choo-choo" hat and took his train whistle on the train ride.

Owen getting ready to hand our train tickets to the conductor.

Not even 5 minutes into our train ride, it started raining. And it kept raining and then poured! This is very unusual weather for one of the driest places in the country. So, we have no pictures of the train itself. We were too busy trying to stay dry and warm. But Owen still had a great time! I'm sure we'll ride this train again later in the summer when it's warm.

On our drive home we noticed it not only rained, but hailed in some places. This is some of the hail we saw. The mountains actually looked like they were covered in snow, but it was all hail!