Zube Park

Oh my goodness, I still feel like I need to do some serious catch up here!  I guess it would help if I wrote more than once a week, but it's summer in our house and we've already been super busy.  So, that's my excuse.  We've been swimming and road tripping and sick (ing?) and I've had some serious Real Housewives catching up to do.  So, here we go with something I just had to write about.

As you may have noticed, we have a train enthusiast in our house.  Like, a majorly obsessed train loving boy- and fortunately Katy is filled with train museums and parks and what not.  So, a few weeks ago when we went to the Katy Depot the lady who was working there told us about Zube (like zoo-bee) Park.  She said "Oh, have you taken him to ride the trains at Zube Park?" and then we knew we HAD to do it!  The trains run on the 3rd Saturday of every month and last month we went the weekend of May 18th and I was so excited to take them and show them the trains and ride them (I had been anticipating this for a good month!).

If you haven't been to Zube Park it's worth the trip.  It took us about half an hour to get there from our house and we tried to get there early (for so many reasons, but one was because I figured the trains would get pretty popular).  The engines are separate from the actual park and that caught us off guard (you have to drive to the 2nd entrance to the park), but once you see them you can find them pretty easily.  It's run by a group called the Houston Area Live Steamers and they are apparently train enthusiasts who do this as a hobby.  They are actual engines, just miniature sized and they are maintained by this group and the group also runs the running of the trains.  :) They give out tickets, collect the tickets, tell you where to go (and they are hilarious folks with lots of personality!).

 So- go see it just to see them!

See, we got there pretty early and there was already a pretty good line going.  It moves fairly quickly since they have several trains running, but it's still corralling little kids while you wait in line.  Are you wondering how I got this picture since we were all riding the trains together?  Well...

This is what Emery wanted to do the whole time.  Not be anywhere near the trains.  Like, flat out, no way, kicky sreamy fits about not riding the train.

So, Beckett and Matt rode the train once.

And apparently Beckett his in Matt's arms the whole ride.  You can see it coming in his face can't ya.  Matt really enjoyed it though, so at least one of us liked it.  :)  They rode the train and then we spent 2 hours at the park- just like we could've done ALOT closer to our house, but that's ok.

We can say we've done it and we don't like it, ha ha!  We love finding little adventures like this to do around Houston- there's so many fun things going on that are especially geared toward little ones.  I'd say give Zube park a try- maybe your kids are braver than mine! :)