On a Sunday in January, Bella and I took a train ride as part of the One Book, Two Book celebration. The train was the Hawkeye Express and we took it from the North Liberty library to the U of I Main Library. It was exciting because the train tracks run close to our house and we cross them and drive along them in our every day life, so I was interested to see the city from a different view point. I wasn't even sure where all the train tracks went.
When I read about it, I wondered why it would take 45 minutes to get from one library to another and when we got on the train I knew. It went really really slow. Bella was interested in looking around the train and they also had book characters on the train, so she really enjoyed that. By the time we got to the Main Library, it was already time to take the return trip home, so we basically spent two hours on the train. On the way back, it was getting kind of dark and Bella was getting bored, so she just drew for a while. I had a discussion with someone who was working on the train and knew a lot about it. I told him it seemed like the Hawkeye Express went quite a bit faster. He said "Oh yeah, the Hawkeye Express goes about 40 mph and the regulations for the historic track we are on only allows us to go 10 mph. " Yep... 10 mph. No wonder it seemed slow. It was the first time passengers had been on the track instead of cargo since 1957! The train got back to the North Liberty Rec Center at 6pm and Jeff was playing bball then, so it worked out perfectly for us to meet up with Jeff and Evie when we got back.
Corduroy was on the train!
Where we cross the train tracks every day
Iowa River
Bella sneaks another picture with Corduroy
Drawing on the way back
This is Evie waiting for us at the Rec center, she was actually pretty sick that day
We met up with the Davis boys to watch bball
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