Our Christmas Train Ride

A little tradition we began last year was to take the boys on a Christmas Steam Train. We went to a different one this year which departed from Rowsley and travelled to Matlock and back again and I'm not going to lie, but it was a disaster.

It seemed initially we were going to have the cabin to ourselves but shortly before we were due to depart a young boy (2), his Dad and his Grandad came and sat opposite us. Neither of our boys would sit down nicely, Jake kept standing up on the seat and trying to jump and Noah couldn't decide where he wanted to sit.

The next hurdle was the snacks, they both wanted more and kept begging even though I didn't have any more to give them! The worse episode was when Santa came round with presents. He gave Noah a tractor and a trailer and Jake... a book. This went down incredibly well as one can imagine. Jake kicked off because he wanted the tractor and Noah kicked off because it was his and he didn't want Jake to have it. This pretty much lasted the entirety of the journey.

Next up was the balloon woman. She came to the cabin and made both the boys a balloon sword. They then both insisted on attacking the guys who were sat opposite us, at first you can kind of laugh about it but they wouldn't stop pestering them. Then Noah's balloon popped and he was hysterical, thankfully I was able to holler the lady and she made him another sword.

I was quite thankful by the time we arrived back at the station but just to top it all off, Noah had given me his balloon to hold as it was really windy and he didn't want it to blow away unfortunately I was attempting to put the balloon in the boot of the car when as I was closing the boot it blew away!! Noah cried the whole way home. 

Roll on next year..

xxxx