Field trip to visit Papa and some trucks!

With my days at home coming to an end after tomorrow (at least until the summer) we had to get one more fun field trip in.  So we went to NY to visit my dad at the property he's been working at.  It is 65 acres with 6 buildings and they are redoing all of them.  There is a tremendous amount of history here and some great stories about some of the well-known families who have lived here.  They are keeping so much of the classic look but updating so much as well, making for a really cool look.  However, the most exciting part was that Tucker got to see Papa, and that Tucker got to see/experience some ENORMOUS trucks.  These are not your average machines-these are the legit big-boys of the excavating world!  Despite a bunch of traffic on the way up, the boys did awesome in the car.  Brayden slept the entire way and Tucker enjoyed a Thomas DVD and part of his truck DVD.

We got to see this loader in action later in the visit.

He didn't know what to think-he was up so high and it was so cool! He was in awe-stunned into silence:)

So this huge truck (I forget what the real name is-some sort of dump truck) is really only used at the job sites because it's so big.  It isn't allowed to drive on the road, and to transport it, it has to be moved on a flatbed and they have to get a special permit every time they transport it because of the extreme weight on the roads.  Interesting stuff! (it really was like a field trip!)

This picture and the next sort of put the largeness of it into perspective-the tires were almost twice tall as Tucker-at least 5 feet!

the boys and the ginormous truck!

being a trooper as usual with a huge smile on his face

 Tucker had fun following my dad around-this was in the guest house.

this is going to be the game wing-Tucker had the best mode of transportation to navigate the terrain

in the library checking out the loader doing work outside

brayden got around in the ergo-pardon my scary face

this may have been one of my favorite things in the house-a window in the marbled shower...

 and there was one in the toilet room too! How cool!

 I thought this staircase was very cool too-you can see the old curtains that are still up

 After a couple hour visit, checking out the trucks, different buildings on the property, eating lunch, pinching tucker's finger in a chair (my bad) and having a blast visiting Papa, the boys were back to sleep within 5 minutes of leaving:) Thanks for a very fun visit dad!