Thomas and His Friends

Last Saturday was a busy day for Andy. His first bus ride, first St. Patrick's Day Parade, and first stage show: Thomas Saves the Day. The weather was a bit nippy (mid 20's) and as we were walking to the bus stop we were wondering if we had lost our minds. We parents, that is. Andy was too busy making footprints in the snow to notice the cold. Luckily, the bus came quickly. When we got on, we noticed a lot more green and a lot more noise than normal. A bunch of St. Patty's Day revelers were headed downtown to hit some Irish pubs. We naively thought the traffic would be coming out of town since the parade was winding down.


Downtown, we caught the tail end of the parade. According to Andy, the highlight was "the hotdog truck" (the Oscar Mayer Weiner-mobile), but there were plenty of marching bands, bag pipers, and firetrucks. Supposedly, it's the second largest parade in the country. With all that to distract us, we didn't feel the cold at all. We caught an underground train (another first) to the Benedum Center and found our seats. As you can see, Andy had a Thomas flashlight to wave at Thomas (picture from cell phone camera).

Here's another cell phone picture I'm using as my background. I asked Andy to smile, but he thought he'd look better this way.