When You Are 18 You Won't Think This Is So Cool!

When you live up the street from a trolley stop, all of your children inevitably go through an "obsessed with the trolley" phase. That is where our youngest has been for the past little while. And of course the passion he holds for the trolley then transfers into excitement in his brother and sister as well! 

So on Memorial Day we decided that it would be a good opportunity and a fun chance to take a nice family trolley trip. 

 The kids waited very anxiously but patiently. We learned all about the different "lines" for trolley destinations and where each line goes. Now when we see a trolley Kellen always asks "Is that the green line, the orange line or the blue line?" And he still remembers where each line takes you! (Probably because on our way home we almost got on the "blue line" instead and took a family trip to Mexico by accident!)

 All aboard. Of course once we were settled with our destination in mind Todd looked at his phone and discovered that we were about to embark on a 40 minute ride, just to get where we were heading. Though there were some "are we there yet?"'s towards the end of the ride, the kids handled it quite well!

 We took the trolley down to Old Town. Meet our new Amigo. 

 After a nice dinner of burritos and quesadillas we went over to the Mormon Battalion and went on their tour. At the end of the tour they have a place where you can pan for gold. The kids each got to bring home 2 pieces of gold....the kids couldn't believe their eyes!

 The Battalion does a really neat tour. The kids had a lot of fun and I enjoyed it myself. It will be fun to go back again when they are a little older and can understand even more of it.

 On the way back home....another 40 minute trip.

 Living up every minute of it!

Todd and I both thought that the nice long ride to and from Old Town would be enough to satisfy the youngins for awhile. We were so wrong....we only added more fuel to the fire! They keep begging for the next Trolley Ride. Kellen has his heart set on a ride down to the baseball field to watch a game. I tell them that when they are 18 they won't think riding on the trolley is really all that exciting. They disagree.