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Thomas (if you don't know who he is, you don't have kids) will be chugging into Tweetsie Railroad from May 30 to June 8.
Tweetsie is a theme park in Blowing Rock about three to four hours from the Triangle. I've never been, but it's one of those places I'd like to take my daughter before she gets too old. She loves trains and all things Thomas.
There are lots of opportunities to hop on a train here in the Triangle that don't require a long car ride. Se our trains resource page. But this looks like it might be a fun way to spend a weekend.
Tickets are $30 for adults and $22 for kids ages 3 to 12. The event includes a 25-minute ride with Thomas, an opportunity to meet Sir Topham Hatt, storytelling and more.
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall
Sarah is in charge of content for TriangleMom2Mom.com and writes about family-friendly events, local moms groups and other topics for the site.
She lives in Raleigh with her
husband and three-year-old daughter. Sarah has written for newspapers
since she was a teenager living in snowy Central New York. After
graduating from the University of Virginia, she traipsed a bit around
Europe and Mount Airy, N.C., before settling down in the Triangle. She
moved here in 1999 to take a job with The News & Observer. She once aspired to play
flute professionally. More recently, her daughter started crying when
she played it.
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Thomas (if you don't know who he is, you don't have kids) will be chugging into Tweetsie Railroad from May 30 to June 8.
Tweetsie is a theme park in Blowing Rock about three to four hours from the Triangle. I've never been, but it's one of those places I'd like to take my daughter before she gets too old. She loves trains and all things Thomas.
There are lots of opportunities to hop on a train here in the Triangle that don't require a long car ride. Se our trains resource page. But this looks like it might be a fun way to spend a weekend.
Tickets are $30 for adults and $22 for kids ages 3 to 12. The event includes a 25-minute ride with Thomas, an opportunity to meet Sir Topham Hatt, storytelling and more.
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall
Sarah is in charge of content for TriangleMom2Mom.com and writes about family-friendly events, local moms groups and other topics for the site.
She lives in Raleigh with her husband and three-year-old daughter. Sarah has written for newspapers since she was a teenager living in snowy Central New York. After graduating from the University of Virginia, she traipsed a bit around Europe and Mount Airy, N.C., before settling down in the Triangle. She moved here in 1999 to take a job with The News & Observer. She once aspired to play flute professionally. More recently, her daughter started crying when she played it.
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If you can't make it as far as Tweetsie you can also see Thomas at the NC Transportation Musuem in Salisbury. We have been the past four years and have had a ball. There are lots of things to do from bubbles, sidewalk chalk, story telling slides, songs and of course a ride on the famous Thomas the Tank. It makes for a wonderful day. He is usually there the last weekend in Sept. and the First weekend in Oct. Make your reservations to ride soon as it fills up fast. We usually went on Thurs. night and spent Friday there to avoid the crowds on Saturday.
My son was really into Thomas from the age of 18 months until 5 1/2. Even though he is now slowly getting out of the thomas stage he just won't let go of him completly. He still has his Thomas comforter and his stuffed thomas pillow. Thanks Thomas for 4 wonderful years.