Catch the Detroit...

For Jack's (extended) two-year birthday we went to the Los Angeles Live Steamers on Sunday. This is a great, kind of hidden place in Griffith Park where a group of very strange people build and operate scale replicas of steam and diesel trains. It's not (the much better known) Travel Town - those are real trains. This is a place close to Travel Town where, on Sundays, you can go and ride on these fantastic little trains for a small (suggested) donation.

It's so bizzarly cool that it's amazing that it still exists. It all began - like a lot of great odd things in Los Angeles - with Walt Disney, and you can still get a good hit of that Disney vibe at a tiny fraction of the cost of Disneyland. Anyway, Jack just reached the height mark, so we went for a ride with Finn and Peepa Petur and had a great time!

The pictures aren't great because one of their many strange rules is no pictures, so Em had to sneak one from outside the fence. I pulled another one off of the Internet just to give the idea.

We also had a nice little party for Jack in the park and Mama made a delicious train cake! Part of it took a fall in the parking lot, but there was still enough for the cake fans (including me). We were joined by Nana, Petur, Amy, Jamie, and Felix, and grandma Kathy later. It was a really nice end to a week-long birthday!