Friday, April 18, 2008
Our Leasurely Saturday Trip
A couple of weeks ago, we woke up on Saturday morning and David asked me what I wanted to do. “Sleep” was the first thing that popped into my head - and I said it as I reaiized it was a little after 8am. Most of you will remember that neither of us are morning people and getting up before 10am on a Saturday is definitely not prefered. He laughed and again asked me what I wanted to do that day. Finally I woke up enough to ask him what HE wanted to do that day.
He then told me we should take a ride on a train. “Really?” I’d never been on a train before so even though it was early, I jumped at the idea. We headed to Cedar Park (a little town about 15 min away from our house) we bought excursion class tickets. We were to ride in a 1950’s coach (that had aftermarket heating and air conditioning) on the ususally steam, but while repairs are made, diesel train. The train was scheduled to leave at 10am, but after getting a late start we headed out at 1010. Or so we though. We ended up getting behind a couple of freight trains, so not only did we end up leaving late, it took 4.5 hrs to get to Burnet! If you’re not from Austin, you’ll not know that it’s about 60 miles away. However, we made the best of it, drank our starbucks, watched out our window at the beautiful Texas countryside flying (or not so flying at times) by, roamed the train and enjoyed the beautiful spring weather.
There was a guy who had a birthday on the train, so the volunteer car attendants sang and danced for him. It was great. If I can upload it, I will. It’s not the whole song, but gives you an idea of the experience for sure. 
It was such a relaxing day, and just what the doctor ordered. When we got to Burnet, we headed off to grab some food before the almost 2 hr layover came to a close. We squeezed in some shopping at some of the quaint little stores on their square, and headed back to ride the train home. After a nap and a root beer, we were home.
My husband has some really good ideas sometimes, and this was one of them. It was a really neat experience and made for a really relaxing Saturday. You can see more of our pics on our smugmug but I’ve attached a couple of the really good ones here.