Durango - Silverton Railway

On Saturday during the family reunion we all took the Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railway (http://www.durangotrain.com/). We had a great time on the train visiting with each other, viewing the beautiful mountain scenery and catching a few naps. The kids enjoyed being on the train, but it was a long day; we left Durango at 8:15am and returned at 5:40pm. We had a two hour stop in Silverton where we ate lunch and wandered the old mining town.

Aunt Patti, Mom, Grandma, me & Sabrina, & Mike
Isabella staring out the train car.

Orion and me - our group got "in trouble" with the conductors because we were supposed to stay seated and out of the aisle, but there were almost 30 of us and we wanted to visit with each other!
Brett and Sabrina
Isabella, Hunter and my cousin, Meghan. She held Hunter most of the ride to Silverton and Isabella slept on her lap the train ride back to Durango.
Orion and Isabella running the streets of Silverton
Hunter was hiding in his shirt. He thought this was a really fun game!
Hunter is bargaining with a "salesman" for the purchase of a crystal. It was a very funny exchange to watch. The "salesman" was about 8 years old and he was trying his best to get Hunter to spend his "vacation" dollar on a rock with a face drawn on it. Hunter ended up buying the crystal rock for 75 cents.
We enjoyed some ice cream before getting back on the train.

My cousin, Whit is a big guy, so the kids enjoyed using Whit as a walking jungle gym. Whit didn't seem to mind too much.