{"id":517,"date":"2007-12-29T22:33:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T03:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=517"},"modified":"2007-12-29T22:33:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T03:33:28","slug":"Dinner Train (Adventure)","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Dinner Train (Adventure)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristine&#8217;s parents treated us to a ride on the dinner train in Spooner, WI, and it was awesome! It was also an adventure because the train got stuck in the snow and ice at one of the road crossings. The total trip ended up being 3 hours from 6 until 9 which started to stretch the kids by the end &#8212; but they were troopers. See the pictures below from our adventure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Josiah and Analise in the window after the ride.\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/train01.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>After we made it back to the station at the end of the ride, I ran outside to start the car to warm it up for the ride home.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"the dining car\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/train02.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Here is the dining car after we got back. Note the long icicles and the snow in the air.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"watching a movie\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/train03.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Our kids made it back, although they were VERY tired especially after all the dancing (see below).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sucking on an icicle\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/train04.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Analise enjoys sucking on an icicle pulled from the train window.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dancing with a new friend\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/train05.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Analise dancing with one of her new friends.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dancing with a different friend\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/train06.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Analise dancing with a different friend.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dancing with yet another friend\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/train08.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Analise dancing with yet another friend!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dancing with her daddy\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/train07.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Analise enjoyed dancing with me, too!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"josiah and me\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/train10.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"josiah and me, dancing\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/train11.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Josiah wasn&#8217;t going to miss out on any of the dancing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"the great northern railroad\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/family\/christmas07\/train09.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Here&#8217;s a picture of the train engine of the Great Northern Railroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristine&#8217;s parents treated us to a ride on the dinner train in Spooner, WI, and it was awesome! It was also an adventure because the train got stuck in the snow and ice at one of the road crossings. The total trip ended up being 3 hours from 6 until 9 which started to stretch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-8l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}