While we were in Hawaii, we rode 2 trains, much to Jaimeson's excitement. That's quite an effort since Hawaii doesn't have a rail network!
We were shopping at
Windward Mall in Kaneohe on the second day of having our hire car, feeling like we'd stepped back to 1987 cos this Mall is seriously stuck in the past with black glass and weird hexagonal shaped floorplan. Not to mention empty of people
and good shops, when it suddenly redeemed itself with one small toot of a train whistle. A miniature mall-train!
What more could Jaimeson want, than a ride on a mall-train? Yep, nothing. So apparently Christmas came early for Jai!
He was a little chuffed with our yellow Carriage.
Say Cheese for Daddy, cos he has to mind the pram and the shopping bags (ok, so I
did find something to buy in 1987, no puffy sleeves in sight though!). Our conductor/driver took things
VERY seriously. He sold us our tickets ($2 per ride I think it was) then said "I'll come along and ask for the tickets and you'll need to show them". Like 2 seconds after we got our tickets and climbed into the carriage he booms "tickets please!" and waits for me to show ours. Ok dude, you
just gave them to me! LOL! But it was so realistic, after he collected our tickets he booms "All Aboard!!", rings the bell, blows some steam out of the train funnel (where did that come from?) and off we went!
It was a really long ride, we did 3 laps of the mall which I thought was pretty cool! Some of the shop keepers stopped what they were doing just to wave at us! And Jai loved it when we passed the pet shop {oof oof! Oof oof!} at the puppies!
Here is our uber serious Train Driver, cool outfit hey! LOL!
What a fun ride, even if we had to step back to 1987 to go on the train!
:) C
3 comments:
I laughed out loud at the pic of Jai in the carriage. The face! I think he may, possibly, just a little bit, be a tad happy! He looks like a big boy too! Oh, there are lots of people on the train! I thought you might be the onlies!
Ha ha, that's so cool. I've never seen a mall train before! Well, not an indoor one anyway!
That is a cool train.
Loved all those trains.....my son would love it as well!! I think every mall ever should have its own train!
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