Evan and Mom's Downtown Date

Coloring while we wait for our food....

 Inside the caboose - as soon as he saw me get up, he decided he needed to get up...imagine that...

 In the middle of our feast!

 Having a little ice cream....

 At the Crown Plaza checking out the train cars....

 Running through Pan Am Plaza....

 In Pan Am Plaza in front of Union Station....

 At the mall checking out all the traffic on Maryland (I think)....

In the car right before we left...I realized we didn't have any pictures together....

While on Fall Break this weekend, Evan and I went downtown for our date.  He was such an angel the whole time - it was great!  We stopped to talk to a nice police officer who said, "That's what I like to see little man, you and your best girl out on the town."  We got downtown early (because I'm typically always early) and it was a good thing.  There were tons of FFA (Future Farmers of America) kids everywhere for their annual convention.  (They are the SWEETEST kids by the way....so polite and kind.)  There was also a LOT of construction.  Luckily, there were plenty of police officers directing traffic.  It took us a while to find a parking spot since our usually parking garage was full.  We had to go around the block. 

Once we parked, we made our way through the mall and outside to the Old Spaghetti Factory.  Since we only had a party of 2, we were able to sit in the train caboose that's in the middle of the restaurant.  Evan was soooooo excited!  We had been looking forward to this for a few weeks.  We ate salad, bread and butter, our dinner (I had spaghetti and Evan had macaroni and cheese), and then we topped it off with some vanilla ice cream. 

After we left, we went past the old train station (Union Station) and then to the Crown Plaza Hotel where there are train cars parked and they've been turned into hotel rooms.  I took him to the train car where Mike and I got engaged.  He said "this is so awesome," but he wouldn't go near them. 

We walked through Pan Am Plaza, past St. Elmo's Steakhouse (where Mike and I ate the night we got engaged) and back through the mall.  Our final stop was at the Nestle Tollhouse Cookie shop where I paid almost $5.00 for 2 cookies (well worth the splurge though). 

Then, we went to Grandma's to hang out for a little bit while I ran a couple of errands.  Evan and I had one of the best days ever yesterday.  We were exhausted when we got home, but Evan has discovered Curious George.  He was watching an episode on PBS.com and he said, "Ok Mom.  One more Curious George and that's it.  Then it's time for bed!"  (He said this 2 or 3 times before he actually gave up and went to bed.)  It was funny.