{"id":285,"date":"2005-01-19T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/alex-and-dad-weekend.html"},"modified":"2005-01-19T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T20:03:00","slug":"alex-and-dad-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mceachernfamily.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/alex-and-dad-weekend.html","title":{"rendered":"Alex and Dad Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a great Alex and Dad weekend. Jen left on Friday with Kelly and Amanda for their Austin weekend right after lunch and we just hung out like we usually do on our Fridays. Saturday morning hung out at the house for a little bit watching George the Fireman video we got at the library and after that we headed to the train show that was going on at the Plano Centre. If it had anything to do with trains then it was to been seen at the show. They had more vendors then I would have thought possible selling every type of train related stuff like model rail sets of every size, trains to run on every type of model rail set, pictures of trains, antique train parts, books about trains, engineer hats, train whistles, and on and on. The highlight for Alex was the large exhibits they had set up where people were running their trains. I think we could have spent hours and hours just watching the trains go by, whistles blowing, and smoke stakes steaming but eventually we were both worn out and headed home.<\/p>\n

Saturday night we went out to eat to the Vienna Cafe and considering how tired he was Alex held up pretty well. He was dead set on having a hot dog, and to Alex a hot dog is a corn dog, and of course they don’t serve corn dogs at the German cafe. He made me ask the waiter specifically if they had a “hot dog” just to be sure they really didn’t have them but for some reason just kept them off the menu. I ordered him the knockwurst kids platter and he did reasonably well with that but was pretty disappointed about the hot dog. He said “Maybe next time we come they’ll have hot dogs.” We can only hope.<\/p>\n

Sunday we watched the Fire Fighter video another three times and waited for Jen and company to return. I would have to say that it was a very successful weekend.
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