Story Land and Mt. Washington

We took a trip to New Hampshire this weekend with Jake and his family to visit Story Land - a medium sized amusement park that is supposedly a big hit with the preschool crowd. I was a little worried because Henry kept being confused and calling it "Toy Story Land" in the weeks leading up to our trip, and I was concereed he would be disappointed when Buzz and Woody weren't there to great him. I was wrong, though, and he and Jake had a great time:





Loading onto a roller coaster:


On the log ride:





Competing:



The flying fish:




Shooting water cannons at the pirate ship:




Playing with the talking tree:






This morning we took a brief hike to a place called Diana's Bath, where they had a little waterfall and a place for the kids to wade:






After that, the familes split up and we took our little train lover to Mount Washington to ride the cog railway - the oldest cog train in the United States:




The track leading up from the base station:


The train goes about 6 miles per hour up to the summit of Mount WAshington - it is the 2nd steepest mountain train in the world, and the only one built entirely on a trestle. You can kind of get a feel for the grade in some of the pictures:





There was great weather at the top:





Mount Washington is known for having some of the worst weather in the world:




And only sees about 60 clear days a year, so we lucked out!

Before heading back down we explored the Mount Washington museum and Henry rock climbed his way to the summit - the highest point in the northeast:





(I climbed Mount Washington as a hiker a few years ago, and let me tell you - the cog railway is definitely the way to go!)

It was a great little weekend away!