In case you were wondering…

In case you were ever wondering, I figured out how the dinosaurs went extinct this weekend.  But first, I’ll tell you about the Austin Steam Train. 

This past Sunday we took the kids up to Round Rock to ride the Austin Steam Train with some friends from church. 

It’s a little touristy train that goes from Cedar Park to Bertram, about 20 miles away. 

 

Even though the name is Austin Steam Train, it’s a diesel.  When we got to Bertram, they pulled the engine around and hooked it up to the last car to go back.  This just happened to be our car.

Oh yeah so about the dinosaurs…  Dalton had taken a little blue plastic dinosaur with him on the train.  You know, the kind you spend $20 in tokens for at Chucky Cheese and end up buying because you only got 15 tickets.  So Dalton and his friends were playing “toss the dinosaur” after several warnings that they might lose it.   Dalton tried to toss it to his friend and it went right out the window.  He quickly tried to relay the story to us and while he was talking, you could see the expression on his face change as it sank it what really just happened.  He was bawling that he would never see his dinosaur again.  He even asked if we could walk back and get it after the train stopped.  Poor kid. 

So if you were ever curious how the dinosaurs died, they just went out the window.