Irvine Park Railroad

The day after his birthday, John took Friday off at work and we played all day. I had planned most of the day and left John in the dark. We first went to the Mission Viejo Mall and had breakfast at Ruby's Diner, a new favorite local breakfast place of ours. It has a great family atmosphere. Brody's favorite part is the toy train that runs through the restaurant.

After breakfast we walked the mall and took a look at the new Microsoft store that just opened the day before. It wasn't too busy, which was nice. The store looked great and they had some really cool things there. John walked around while the kids and I played on the Surface. It is a coffee table touch screen computer. They had a bunch of fun kid games and activities to do. Brody and Piper loved it all.

After the mall, we drove up to the Irvine Park Railroad. It is a fun place to go in the fall with the spirit of Halloween everywhere. They have hay rides, a haunted house, hay maze, horse rides, bounce houses, and the best little train ride around. This was Brody's and my 3rd year going and John's and Piper's first. Our favorite is the train ride that takes you through Irvine Regional Park. It was pretty crowded this day, though, being the day before Halloween.Piper and I waiting in line for the train.

Brody looking excited.

Almost time to go!

Piper loved it all.Brody was pretty quite for most of it, but seemed to have a lot of fun. Posing in front of the train.Brody loved all the pumpkins, but refused to look at the camera for a great picture most of the day.Having fun in the hay maze.Going in the haunted mansion with daddy. We thought for sure he would have been scared, since he is with the littlest things.But he ran out to me excited to tell me all about it. We ended up going through about a dozen times after that.Mommy and the kids.Piper riding the hay horsey like a little lady.Ride 'em horsey!Our little scarecrows!The only decent pictures of the kids that we could get.
The perfect ending to a fun day with daddy.