Tilden Steam Train

It's rare that we have a day with nothing planned. We decided to go to the steam train in Tilden park. We also had a nice picnic in the park across the street. I, yet again, forgot the spoons, so we converted the foil tops and they got a kick out of that! Maggie loves turning trash into treasures, so she really appreciated this.

                                                                   

Afterwards, we took the long winding road back down towards Claremont, got gas with a wonderful view of the magestic, stark white Claremont hotel. Maggie exclaimed, "I want to go there!" Mary replied, "Right now?" "No Mary, another day," Maggie said in condescension tone. I reminded them that daddy took them there when they were babies so that I could have a girls overnight here. They were overjoyed, even though they don't remember a thing.

I had the bright idea of getting ice cream, and found a place on Yelp with lots do sorbets for me. It was Tara's ice cream on College Ave. and had so many hippie flavors that the girls couldn't find nothing they liked. Fearful that they wouldn't get anything, they settled on dark chocolate, but apparently that was a bit too granola for their taste ns it ended up in the trash!